Diaspora : Jews amidst Greeks and Romans

by: Gruen, E.S.

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 Diaspora : Jews amidst Greeks and Romans
Author:Erich S. Gruen

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.

By the first century of our era, Jews living abroad far outnumbered those living in Palestine and had done so for generations. Substantial Jewish communities were found throughout the Greek mainland and Aegean islands, Asia Minor, the Tigris–Euphrates valley, Egypt, and Italy. Focusing especially on Alexandria, Greek cities in Asia Minor, and Rome, Gruen explores the lives of these Jews: the obstacles they encountered, the institutions they established, and their strategies for adjustment. He also delves into Jewish writing in this period, teasing out how Jews in the diaspora saw themselves. There emerges a picture of a Jewish minority that was at home in Greco-Roman cities: subject to only sporadic harassment; its intellectuals immersed in Greco-Roman culture while refashioning it for their own purposes; exhibiting little sign of insecurity in an alien society; and demonstrating both a respect for the Holy Land and a commitment to the local community and Gentile government. Gruen?s innovative analysis of the historical and literary record alters our understanding of the way this vibrant minority culture engaged with the dominant Classical civilization.

Contents:
Introduction
I. Jewish Life in the Diaspora
1. The Jews in Rome
2. The Jews in Alexandria
3. Jews in the Province of Asia
4. Civic and Sacral Institutions in the Diaspora
II. Jewish Constructs of Diaspora Life
5. Diaspora Humor I: Historical Fiction
6. Diaspora Humor II: Biblical Recreations
7. Jewish Constructs of Greeks and Hellenism
8. Diaspora and Homeland
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Subjects:
Judaism: other
history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: other
586 B.C.-210 A.D
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Diaspora
Diaspora juive
Greece
Greece History
Grèce Histoire
Hellenistische Staaten
History
Jewish diaspora
Jewish literature
Jewish literature History and criticism
Jews
Jews Greece History
Jews History 586 B.C.-70 A.D
Jews History 586 B.C.-70 A.D., Exilic and Second Temple period
Jews Rome History
Joden
Jodendom
Joodse literatuur
Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
Judaism Post-exilic period (Judaism)
Judaïsme Histoire 586 av. J.-C.-210 (Période postexilique)
Judentum
Juifs Grèce Histoire
Juifs Histoire 586 av. J.-C.-70
Juifs Rome Histoire
Littérature juive Histoire et critique
Rome (Empire)
Rome Provinces Histoire
Rome Provinces History

ix, 386 pages ; 24 cm

Diaspora : Jews amidst Greeks and Romans

by: Gruen, E.S.

• ISBN-13: 9780674016064 / 978-0-674-01606-4
• ISBN-03: 0674016068 / 0-674-01606-8
• Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2004

Price: 29,00 EURO

1 copy in stock