Jews in a Graeco-Roman World.(Review)

The Historian | January 1, 2001| | Copyright

Jews in a Graeco-Roman World. Edited by Martin Goodman. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 293. $72.00.)

"How different from other people in the Graeco-Roman world were the Jews" (3)? Sixteen short essays address Martin Goodman's question in varied, fascinating, and intriguing ways: applying new methodologies to old problems, insightfully examining recently found material, and asking new questions. The result is a series of revealing images of the ways in which Hellenistic/Roman-era Jews interacted with dominant contemporary cultures.

Goodman shows the importance of ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Babylonian hostility: in Iraq, the Jews--and anti-Semitism--are everywhere.
Magazine article from: Reason ; ...his first question was, Are any of you Jews? When he was satisfied that none was, he...are common in Iraq, where al Yahud -- the Jews --are everywhere. Purportedly serious works...journalist, not a day goes by without mention of Jews and Israel. We are Muslims! a taxi driver...
The history of the Jews.
Magazine article from: National Review ; The History of the Jews by Paul Johnson(Harper & Row, 629 pp...magic pen to tell the wonderful tale of the Jews. But the enchantment does not hold, because...with intellectually disastrous results. Jews have had histories. The Jewshave not. No...
The world according to Judeophobes: Jews have always been the favoured scapegoat of influential leaders and elites.(Ideological Antisemitism)
Magazine article from: New Internationalist ; ...deicide (the murder of God) against the Jews would influence the actions of a string...who opined that 'the degradation of the Jews all over the world [serves] as a contrast...15th-century Protestant reformer, hoped that Jews would be expelled from his beloved German...
Jews, Catholics celebrate Nostra Aetate.(PERSPECTIVES)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter ; ...beyond words to suggest that Catholics and Jews could not gather in the same worship space...unthinkable to them that Catholics and Jews would never exchange visits to a church...Nostra Aetate, it was unthinkable that Jews and Catholics would gather under the same...
Portrait of the artist as an antisemite: many highly regarded writers and artists held deep antipathy towards Jews and incorporated anti-Jewish themes into their work.(Cultural Antisemitism)
Magazine article from: New Internationalist ; ...works draw upon negative stereotypes of Jews as moneylenders, opportunists and deceivers...first, in his own words, of a lot of low Jews, Jewesses and Jewkins ... and developed...retelling of the classic blood-libel charge of Jews murdering Christian children. Shakespeare...
Representations of Jews in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Literature.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review ; Representations of Jews in Late Medieval and Early Modern German...corrective to the view that the presentation of Jews in Middle High German and Early Modern...equally universal racist hostility towards Jews among the target audiences of these texts...
A world without Jews: the Nazi goal was a Europe without Jews. The militant Islamist goal is a Middle East without Jews. Is it really so far-fetched to perceive similarities?(OPINION)
Magazine article from: Moment ; ...Islamists. The Nazi goal was a Europe without Jews. The militant Islamist goal is a Middle East without Jews. Is it really so far-fetched to perceive similarities...that--I do not--it is absurd to suppose that Jews would be able to remain in such a re-conceptualized...
A certain people: American Jews and their lives today.
Magazine article from: National Review ; A Certain People: American Jews and Their Lives Today AMERICAN JEWS now witness their fourth and fifth generations in this...leadership in Jewry. Charles Silberman takes stock of where Jews have been and what it all means. His book is a testament...
Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century ; Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism. By Paula Fredriksen. Doubleday, 512 pp., $35.00...of her academic work: Augustine's theological defense of the Jews. While his witness doctrine is well known among scholars, it...
Of Blacks and Jews, film finds hurt and hope.
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter ; ...Farrakhan on Meet the Press dissing the Jews. Meanwhile here in the Bronx, the northern...popular culture is high on their anger list. Jews, who were once subject to quotas at Ivy...Hertzberg, a historian of American Jewry, says, Jews are no longer trying to get into the academic...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Jews in a Graeco-Roman World.(Review)"