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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 ...