Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism
In: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism Ser.
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Moses and Exodus -- Chapter 1. Alexandria in Pharaonic Egypt: Projections in De vita Mosis -- Chapter 2. Moses and the Charlatans: On the Charge of γόης καὶ ἀπατεών in Contra Apionem 2.145, 161 -- Chapter 3. Moses: Motherless with Two Mothers -- Chapter 4. Leaving Home: Philo of Alexandria on the Exodus -- Part 2. Places and Ruins -- Chapter 5. Geography without Territory: Tacitus's Digression on the Jews and its Ethnographic Context -- Chapter 6. Show and Tell: Myth, Tourism, and Jewish Hellenism -- Chapter 7. What If the Temple of Jerusalem Had Not Been Destroyed by the Romans? -- Part 3. Theater and Myth -- Chapter 8. Philo's Struggle with Jewish Myth -- Chapter 9. Part of the Scene: Jewish Theater in Antiquity -- Chapter 10. Take Your Time: Conversion, Confidence and Tranquility in Joseph and Aseneth -- Part 4. Antisemitism and Reception -- Chapter 11. Antisemitism and Early Scholarship on Ancient Antisemitism -- Chapter 12. A Leap into the Void: The Philo-Lexikon and Jewish-German Hellenism -- Chapter 13. Tacitus's Excursus on the Jews through the Ages: An Overview of its Reception History -- Chapter 14. Polytheism and Monotheism in Antiquity: On Jan Assmann's Critique of Monotheism -- Chapter 15. Testa incognita: The History of the Pseudo-Josephus Bust in Copenhagen -- Index of Cited Passages -- Index of Names and Places -- Index of Subjects.
