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Diaspora Jews amidst Greeks and Romans

Paperback • 2004 • English

Diaspora Jews amidst Greeks and Romans

By Erich S. Gruen

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What was life like for Jews settled throughout the Mediterranean world of Classical antiquity--and what place did Jewish communities have in the diverse civilization dominated by Greeks and Romans? In a probing account of the Jewish diaspora in the four centuries from Alexander the Great's conquest of the Near East to the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 C.E., Erich Gruen reaches often surprising conclusions. By the first century of our era, Jews living abroad far outnumbered those ...Show more

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9780674016064

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2004

Language

English

Original title

Diaspora Jews amidst Greeks and Romans

Format

Paperback

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