"As interesting to read as they are informative, the volumes in this important series deal in new ways with topics and materials that illuminate the life and literature of early Christianity...Taken as a whole, the series offers various new avenues of approach to an understanding of the social, intellectual, and literary environment of the early ...
Josephus, a Palestinian Jew, authored "Bellum Judaicum", which chronicled the Jewish revolt against Rome begun in 66 AD in Jerusalem, and roughly 20 years later wrote "Antiquitates Judaicae", a study of Jewish history from the creation to 66 AD. In both "Bellum Judaicum" and the "Vita", an appendix to "Antiquitates Judaicae", Josephus deals with ...
Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? This improbable question, first advanced by anti-Jewish Christian polemicists, is the point of departure for this wide-ranging exploration of gender and Jewishness in Jewish thought. With a lively command of a wide range of Jewish sources - from the Bible and the Talmud to the legal and philosophical writings ...
An unravelling of one of the most complex issues of late antiquity, showing how elements of ethnicity, nationality and religion were understood and applied in the construction of Jewish identity - by Jews, by gentiles and by the state.
Former students, colleagues and friends of the eminent classicist and historian Prof. Louis H. Feldman are pleased to honor him with a Jubilee volume. While Prof. Feldman has long been considered an outstanding scholar of Josephus, his scholarly interests and research interests pertain to almost all aspects of the ancient world and Jews. The ...
The second in a two-volume collection of scholarly essays by the late Morton Smith (1915-1991) who was Professor of Ancient History at Columbia University in New York City, America. Smith was well known for his ability to look at familiar texts in unfamiliar ways, to re-open old questions, to pose new questions and to demolish received truths. The ...
The first in a two-volume collection of scholarly essays by the late Morton Smith (1915-1991) who was Professor of Ancient History at Columbia University in New York City, America. Smith was well known for his ability to look at familiar texts in unfamiliar ways, to re-open old questions, to pose new questions and to demolish received truths. The ...
An unravelling of one of the most complex issues of late antiquity, showing how elements of ethnicity, nationality and religion were understood and applied in the construction of Jewish identity - by Jews, by gentiles and by the state.
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