Diaspora : Jews amidst Greeks and Romans /

Gruen, Erich S.

Diaspora : Jews amidst Greeks and Romans / Erich S. Gruen. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002. - ix, 386 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-373) and index.

Jewish life in the diaspora. The Jews in Rome ; The Jews in Alexandrea ; Jews in the province of Asia ; Civic and sacral institutions in the diaspora -- Jewish constructs of diaspora life. Diaspora humor I. Historical fiction ; Diaspora humor II: biblical recreation ; Jewish constructs of Greeks and Hellenism ; Diaspora and homeland.

0674007506 (alk. paper)

2001052767

GBA2-Y3997


Jewish diaspora.
Jewish literature--History and criticism.
Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D.
Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

DS 121.65 / .G78 2002

909.04924 / G922d