Looking In, Looking Out: Jews and Non-Jews in Mutual Contemplation

Essays for Martin Goodman on His 70th Birthday
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-68503-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 212, 454 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 900 g

Reihe: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism

Martin Goodman’s forty years of scholarship in Roman history and ancient Judaism demonstrates how each discipline illuminates the other: Jewish history makes best sense in a broader Greco-Roman context; Roman history has much to learn from Jewish sources and evidence.

In this volume, Martin’s colleagues and students follow his example by examining Jews and non-Jews in mutual contemplation. Part 1 explores Jews’ views of inter-communal stasis, the causes of the Bar Kochba revolt, tales of Herodian intrigue, and the meaning of “Israel.” Part 2 investigates Jews depiction of outsiders: Moabites, Greeks, Arabs, and Roman authorities. Part 3 explores early Christians’ (Luke, Jerome, Rufinus, Syriac poetry, Pionius, ordinary individuals) views of Jews and use of Jewish sources, and Josephus’s relevance for girls in 19th century Britain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Friedman, David A.

Czajkowski, Kimberley

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

Contributors

Introduction

Kimberley Czajkowski and David Friedman

Part 1: Looking In

1 Historiography in the Time of Stasis: Reflections on the Nationalistic Uprisings in Judea/Palestine

Jonathan Price

2 The Ban on Circumcision as a Cause of the Bar Kokhba Revolt: A Reconsideration

Aharon Oppenheimer z”l

3 “When I Die, Kill Those Elders”: The Twice-Told Tale of a Despot’s Death

Amram Tropper

4 Pitying Suppliant Animals

Shaye J. D. Cohen

5 Who Are Israel in the Mishnah and Tosefta?

Yehudah B. Cohn

Part 2: Looking Out

6 Playing with the Moabites: Textual and Linguistic Reflections on Isaiah 15–16

H. G. M. Williamson

7 Greek Identity in Josephus’s Against Apion

Jonathan Davies

8 Josephus and Nicolaus on Arabs and Arabia

Daniel R. Schwartz

9 Calendars and Dates in the Early Decades of Provincia Arabia: A Reappraisal

Sacha Stern

10 The Rule of the Wise as an Alternative to Kingship and Democracy in Ancient Rabbinic and Philosophical Thought

Catherine Hezser

11 A Tale of Two Cities: Rome and Jerusalem in Jewish Eschatology between 70 CE and 135 CE

Philip Alexander

Part 3: Looking Back Again

12 Monotheism and Religious Wars in Antiquity

Benjamin Isaac

13 Did First-Century Asian Jews Live in “Communities”?

Seth Schwartz

14 Jewish–Christian Polemic in Martyrium Pionii

William Horbury

15 Friendships between Jews and Christians in Antiquity

Markus Bockmuehl

16 Jerome, Jews, and “Hebrews”

Alison G. Salvesen

17 Rufinus of Aquileia’s Eusebian Therapeutae: A Monastic Reinterpretation of Philo’s De vita contemplativa

Sabrina Inowlocki

18 Antiochus Proposes, Shmoni Disposes: A Syriac Poem on the Martyrs of 2 Maccabees 7

Sebastian Brock

19 Josephus for Girls

Tessa Rajak

Appendix: M. D. Goodman’s Publications

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Authors

Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Kimberley Czajkowski (DPhil 2015) is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the history of the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.

David A. Friedman (DPhil 2017) is an Affiliated Researcher in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge, and a Bye-Fellow at Darwin College and St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. His research focuses on Jews (especially Josephus) in the Greco-Roman world.