Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. An Overview of the Volume 1
5. Antisemitic Motives for the Persecution of Jews in the Second Temple Period as Attested in Esther 3 (MT and Old Greek) and in Philo’s In Flaccum 5
6. Jews as a “Warlike and Rebellious People” – The Intensification of Anti-Jewish Sentiments in the Ancient Esther Traditions, Focusing on MT, OG and AT 3:8 and Its Parallels in Addition B 21
7. Defining Boundaries: Inclusion and Exclusion of Judean Groups in 1 and 2 Maccabees 49
8. Jews and Others: Characterization, Stereotypes, and Prototypes in 2 Maccabees 73
9. Jewish Identity, Maternal Pedagogy, and the Charity of Martyrdom in 2 Maccabees 7 91
10. Der drohende Ethnozid der Juden im 3. Makkabäerbuch. Eine jüdische Perspektive auf die „Feindschaft der Völker“ 117
11. Bringing on Contempt: Mechanisms of Judeophobia and Despising the Despiser in 3 Maccabees 137
12. The Accusation of Misanthropy against the Jews in Antiquity: A Stoic Background? 155
13. Exile and Diaspora in Philo in the Light of Hellenistic Philosophical Discourse on Exile 181
14. Tacitus’s Excursus on the Jews (Histories 5.2–10) within Its Historical Context 201
15. Arcana Iudaeorum: Anti-Semitism and Juvenal Satira 14 235
16. Jew-Hatred: Ethnicity and Practice 257
17. List of Contributors 279
18. Index of Subjects 281
19. Index of Ancient Texts 285