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Jew and Gentile in the ancient world : attitudes and interactions from Alexander to Justinian /
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&q...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 presen |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 679 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-619) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1400811562 9781400811564 1282751638 9781282751637 9786612751639 6612751630 1400820804 9781400820801 |