Diaspora Jews amidst Greeks and Romans - Gruen, Erich S. 1935- (Harvard University Press, 2002)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-373) and index
The Jews in Rome -- The Jews in Alexandria -- Jews in the province of Asia -- Civic and sacral institutions in the diaspora -- Diaspora humor I: historical fiction -- Diaspora humor II: biblical recreations -- Jewish constructs of Greeks and Hellenism -- Diaspora and homeland
"What was life like for Jews settled throughout the Mediterranean world of Classical antiquity - and what place did Jewish communities have in the diverse civilization dominated by Greeks and Romans? In a probing account of the Jewish diaspora in the four centuries from Alexander the Great's conquest of the Near East to the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 C.E., Erich Gruen reaches often surprising conclusions."--Jacket