Jews in a Graeco-Roman world / edited by Martin Goodman

Oxford New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: ix, 293 pages; 21cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-278) and index. Contents:Jews, Greeks, and Romans / Martin Goodman -- Jews, Greeks, and Romans in the Third Sibylline Oracle / Erich S. Gruen -- Hellenization of Jerusalem and Shechem / Seth Schwartz -- Josephus' Tobiads : back to the second century? / Daniel R. Schwartz -- Jews, Christians and others in Palestine : the evidence from Eusebius / Benjamin Isaac -- Where were the Jews of the Diaspora buried? / David Noy -- Graeco-Roman voluntary associations and ancient Jewish sects / Albert Baumgarten -- Antichrist among Jews and Gentiles / William Horbury -- Rhetoric and assumptions : Romans and rabbis on sex / Michael L. Satlow -- Gambling in ancient Jewish society and in the Graeco-Roman world / Joshua Schwartz -- Rabbis and the documents / Hannah M. Cotton -- Jewish penal authority in Roman Judaea / Aharon Oppenheimer -- Synagogue leadership : the case of the archisynagogue / Lee Levine -- Structure of the Jewish community in Rome / Margaret Williams -- Gifts of God at Sardis / Tessa Rajak -- Dissonance and misunderstanding in Jewish-Roman relations / Sacha Stern. Subjects: Hellenism History. JudaismMiddle East. Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East. History & Archaeology. Jews Rome Civilization. Jews Civilization To 70 A.D.Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.Jews Rome Civilization.Hellenism.