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The significance of Yavneh and other essays in Jewish Hellenism
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- Creator
- Shaye J.D. Cohen
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2010
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- xv, 614 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9783161503757, 3161503759
- OCLC
- ocn663945148
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Jewish Hellenism. The beauty of Flora and the beauty of Sarai ; Sosates the Jewish Homer ; The destruction : from scripture to midrash ; The significance of Yavneh : Pharisees, Rabbis, and the end of Jewish sectarianism ; Patriarchs and scholarchs ; False prophets (4Q339), Netinim (4Q340), and Hellenism at Qumran -- Josephus. Josephus, Jeremiah, and Polybius ; History and historiography in the August apion of Josephus ; Masada : literary tradition, archaeological remains, and the credibility of Josephus ; Parallel historical tradition in Josephus and Rabbinic literature ; Alexander the Great and Jaddus the High Priest according to Josephus ; Respect for Judaism by gentiles according to Josephus ; Ioudaios to genos and related expressions in Josephus -- Synagogues and Rabbis. Epigraphical Rabbis ; Pagan and Christian evidence on the ancient synagogue ; Were Pharisees and Rabbis the leaders of communal prayer and Torah study in Antiquity : the evidence of the New Testament, Josephus, and the early Christian fathers ; The place of the Rabbi in the Jewish society of the second century -- Conversion and intermarriage. Was Judaism in Antiquity a missionary religion? ; Adolf Harnack's "The mission and expansion of Judaism" : Christianity succeeds where Judaism fails ; Is "proselyte baptism" mentioned in the Mishnah : the interpretation of M. Pesahim 8.8 ; The conversion of Antoninus ; On murdering or injuring a proselyte ; Solomon and the daughter of pharoh : intermarriage, conversion, and the impurity of women -- Women and blood. Menstruants and the sacred in Judaism and Christianity ; Purity, piety, and polemic : Medieval Rabbinic denunciations of "incorrect" purification practices ; A brief history of Jewish circumcision blood -- Judaism and Christianity. Judaism without circumcision and "Judaism" without "circumcision" in Ignatius ; Between Judaism and Christianity : the semi-circumcision of Christians according to Bernard Gui, his sources, and R. Eliezer of Metz ; Does Rashi's Torah commentary respond to Christianity : a comparison of Rashi with Rashbam and Bekhor Shor ; A virgin defiled : some Rabbinic and Christian views on the origins of heresy