The Roots Of Pagan Anti Semitism In The Ancient World
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Roots Of Pagan Anti Semitism In The Ancient World
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Author : Sevenster
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2014-04-09
Roots Of Pagan Anti Semitism In The Ancient World written by Sevenster and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-09 with Religion categories.
Discusses social, economic, and political aspects of antisemitism in the ancient (Greco-Roman) world, based extensively on the writings of Josephus Flavius and Philo.
The Roots Of Pagan Anti Semitism In The Ancient World
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Author : J. N. Sevenster
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
The Roots Of Pagan Anti Semitism In The Ancient World written by J. N. Sevenster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with categories.
The Origins Of Anti Semitism
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Author : John G. Gager
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1983
The Origins Of Anti Semitism written by John G. Gager and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Antisemitism categories.
Examines the presence of anti-Semitism among the Greeks, Romans, and early Christians and argues that anti-Semitism was rare in the ancient world.
Judeophobia
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Author : Peter Schfer
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-01
Judeophobia written by Peter Schfer and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-01 with Social Science categories.
Taking a fresh look at what the Greeks and Romans thought about Jews and Judaism, Peter Schafer locates the origin of anti-Semitism in the ancient world. Judeophobia firmly establishes Hellenistic Egypt as the generating source of anti-Semitism, with roots extending back into Egypt's pre-Hellenistic history. A pattern of ingrained hostility toward an alien culture emerges when Schafer surveys an illuminating spectrum of comments on Jews and their religion in Greek and Roman writings, focusing on the topics that most interested the pagan classical world: the exodus or, as it was widely interpreted, expulsion from Egypt; the nature of the Jewish god; food restrictions, in particular abstinence from pork; laws relating to the sabbath; the practice of circumcision; and Jewish proselytism. He then probes key incidents, two fierce outbursts of hostility in Egypt: the destruction of a Jewish temple in Elephantine in 410 B.C.E. and the riots in Alexandria in 38 C.E. Asking what fueled these attacks on Jewish communities, the author discovers deep-seated ethnic resentments. It was from Egypt that hatred of Jews, based on allegations of impiety, xenophobia, and misanthropy, was transported first to Syria-Palestine and then to Rome, where it acquired a new element: fear of this small but distinctive community. To the hatred and fear, ingredients of Christian theology were soon added--a mix all too familiar in Western history.
Who Made Early Christianity
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Author : John G. Gager, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-16
Who Made Early Christianity written by John G. Gager, Jr. and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-16 with Religion categories.
In this historical and theological study, John G. Gager undermines the myth of the Apostle Paul's rejection of Judaism, conversion to Christianity, and founding of Christian anti-Judaism. He finds that the rise of Christianity occurred well after Paul's death and attributes the distortion of the Apostle's views to early and later Christians. Though Christian clerical elites ascribed a rejection-replacement theology to Paul's legend, Gager shows that the Apostle was considered a loyal Jew by many of his Jesus-believing contemporaries and that later Jewish and Muslim thinkers held the same view. He holds that one of the earliest misinterpretations of Paul was to name him the founder of Christianity, and in recent times numerous Jewish and Christian readers of Paul have moved beyond this understanding. Gager also finds that Judaism did not fade away after Paul's death but continued to appeal to both Christians and pagans for centuries. Jewish synagogues remained important religious and social institutions throughout the Mediterranean world. Making use of all possible literary and archaeological sources, including Muslim texts, Gager helps recover the long pre-history of a Jewish Paul, obscured by recent, negative portrayals of the Apostle, and recognizes the enduring bond between Jews and Christians that has influenced all aspects of Christianity.
The Origins Of Anti Semitism
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Author : John G. Gager
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1985-02-14
The Origins Of Anti Semitism written by John G. Gager and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-02-14 with Religion categories.
This revisionist reading of early anti-Judaism offers a richer and more varied picture of the Jews and Christians of antiquity.
The Religious History Of The Roman Empire
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Author : J. A. North
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2011-05-26
The Religious History Of The Roman Empire written by J. A. North and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-26 with History categories.
A collection of previously published papers by leading scholars, dealing with the religious history of the Roman Empire. It covers Christianity and Judaism as well as the paganism of the Empire which so deeply influenced these world religions.
Jew And Gentile In The Ancient World
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Author : Louis H. Feldman
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-10
Jew And Gentile In The Ancient World written by Louis H. Feldman and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-10 with Religion categories.
Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true, asks Louis Feldman, how did Jews succeed in winning so many adherents, whether full-fledged proselytes or "sympathizers" who adopted one or more Jewish practices? Systematically evaluating attitudes toward Jews from the time of Alexander the Great to the fifth century A.D., Feldman finds that Judaism elicited strongly positive and not merely unfavorable responses from the non-Jewish population. Jews were a vigorous presence in the ancient world, and Judaism was strengthened substantially by the development of the Talmud. Although Jews in the Diaspora were deeply Hellenized, those who remained in Israel were able to resist the cultural inroads of Hellenism and even to initiate intellectual counterattacks. Feldman draws on a wide variety of material, from Philo, Josephus, and other Graeco-Jewish writers through the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha, the Church Councils, Church Fathers, and imperial decrees to Talmudic and Midrashic writings and inscriptions and papyri. What emerges is a rich description of a long era to which conceptions of Jewish history as uninterrupted weakness and suffering do not apply.
The Invention Of Racism In Classical Antiquity
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Author : Benjamin Isaac
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-31
The Invention Of Racism In Classical Antiquity written by Benjamin Isaac and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with History categories.
There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This groundbreaking book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "ethnic and cultural," but not racial, prejudice. It does so by comprehensively tracing the intellectual origins of racism back to classical antiquity. Benjamin Isaac's systematic analysis of ancient social prejudices and stereotypes reveals that some of those represent prototypes of racism--or proto-racism--which in turn inspired the early modern authors who developed the more familiar racist ideas. He considers the literature from classical Greece to late antiquity in a quest for the various forms of the discriminatory stereotypes and social hatred that have played such an important role in recent history and continue to do so in modern society. Magisterial in scope and scholarship, and engagingly written, The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity further suggests that an understanding of ancient attitudes toward other peoples sheds light not only on Greco-Roman imperialism and the ideology of enslavement (and the concomitant integration or non-integration) of foreigners in those societies, but also on the disintegration of the Roman Empire and on more recent imperialism as well. The first part considers general themes in the history of discrimination; the second provides a detailed analysis of proto-racism and prejudices toward particular groups of foreigners in the Greco-Roman world. The last chapter concerns Jews in the ancient world, thus placing anti-Semitism in a broader context.
The Cambridge Companion To Antisemitism
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Author : Steven Katz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-06-02
The Cambridge Companion To Antisemitism written by Steven Katz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-02 with HISTORY categories.
One-volume comprehensive collection of new articles on the history, literature and philosophy of antisemitism, for students and non-experts.