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• catalog abstract "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.".
• catalog contributor b3680558.
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description "Contacts between Jews and non-Jews in the land of Israel -- The strength of Judaism in the Diaspora -- Official anti-Jewish bigotry : the responses of governments to the Jews -- Popular prejudice against Jews -- Prejudice against Jews among ancient intellectuals -- The attractions of the Jews : their antiquity -- The attractions of the Jews : the cardinal virtues -- The attractions of the Jews : the ideal leader, Moses -- The success of proselytism by Jews in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods -- The success of Jews in winning "sympathizers" -- Proselytism by Jews in the third, fourth, and fifth Centuries.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-619) and indexes.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog extent "xii, 679 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "069107416X :".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
• catalog subject "296.3/872/09015 20".
• catalog subject "Antisemitism History.".
• catalog subject "BM534 .F45 1993".
• catalog subject "Conversion Judaism History.".
• catalog subject "Jews History 586 B.C.-70 A.D.".
• catalog subject "Jews History 70-638.".
• catalog subject "Jews Public opinion History.".
• catalog subject "Judaism Controversial literature History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Judaism Relations.".
• catalog subject "Philosemitism History.".
• catalog subject "Proselytizing Judaism History.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Contacts between Jews and non-Jews in the land of Israel -- The strength of Judaism in the Diaspora -- Official anti-Jewish bigotry : the responses of governments to the Jews -- Popular prejudice against Jews -- Prejudice against Jews among ancient intellectuals -- The attractions of the Jews : their antiquity -- The attractions of the Jews : the cardinal virtues -- The attractions of the Jews : the ideal leader, Moses -- The success of proselytism by Jews in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods -- The success of Jews in winning "sympathizers" -- Proselytism by Jews in the third, fourth, and fifth Centuries.".
• catalog title "Jew and Gentile in the ancient world : attitudes and interactions from Alexander to Justinian / Louis H. Feldman.".
• catalog type "text".