11. Greeks and Jews: Mutual Misperceptions in Josephus’ Contra Apionem

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Overview V
3. Preface VII
4. First Publications of Essays XIII
5. Introduction 1
6. General Reflections
7. 1. Cultural Fictions and Cultural Identity 7
8. 2. Hellenistic Judaism 21
9. Jewish Identity and Greco-Roman Culture
10. 3. Fact and Fiction: Jewish Legends in a Hellenistic Context 79
11. 4. Kinship Relations and Jewish Identity 95
12. 5. Hellenism and Judaism: Fluid Boundaries 113
13. 6. Jews and Greeks as Philosophers: A Challenge to Otherness 133
14. 7. The Purported Jewish-Spartan Affiliation 153
15. Reciprocal Perspectives
16. 8. Jewish Perspectives on Greek Culture and Ethnicity 169
17. 9. The Use and Abuse of the Exodus Story 197
18. 10. Persia Through the Jewish Looking-Glass 229
19. 11. Greeks and Jews: Mutual Misperceptions in Josephus’ Contra Apionem 245
20. 12. Tacitus and the Defamation of the Jews 265
21. Jewish Experience in a Pagan World
22. 13. Diaspora and Homeland 283
23. 14. Was There Judeophobia in Classical Antiquity? 313
24. 15. Hellenism and Persecution: Antiochus IV and the Jews 333
25. 16. The Origins and Objectives of Onias’ Temple 359
26. 17. Herod, Rome, and the Diaspora 383
27. 18. Caligula, The Imperial Cult, and Philo’s Legatio 397
28. Jewish Literary Constructs
29. 19. The Letter of Aristeas and the Cultural Context of the Septuagint 413
30. 20. The Twisted Tales of Artapanus: Biblical Rewritings as Novelistic Narrative 437
31. 21. Jews, Greeks, and Romans in the Third Sibylline Oracle 451
32. 22. Subversive Elements in Pseudo-Philo 473
33. 23. Jewish Literature and the Second Sophistic 487
34. List of Abbreviations 505
35. Bibliography 512
36. Index of People, Places and Subjects 542
37. Index of Primary Sources 551