Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome

Twenty-seven interdisciplinary essays, three of them previously unpublished, on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, by a well-known scholar. The four sections are: Greeks and Jews, Josephus, The Jewish Diaspora and Epigraphy, and finally Beyond the Greeks and Romans.This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

'...any scholar interested in the broad subject of ethnicity in the ancient world, and in the more narrow subject of Jewish interaction with that world, would learn much. ...a timely volume full of rich pickings and one which helpfully brings together the important thoughts of a significant player in ancient Jewish studies.' James Carleton Paget, Journal of Theological Studies, 2002. ‘...most welcome, an inspired idea, and a boon for scholars and students of this subject.’ Erich S. Gruen, Scripta Classica Israelica, 2002. ‘Rajak’s scholarship is solid and well-considered…a convenient collection of valuable contributions to this dynamic field.’ James E. Bowley, Religious Studies Review, 2002.

Tessa Rajak, D.Phil., Oxon is currently Reader in Classics University of Reading, and Associate Director, AHRB Research Centre for the Study of Jewish Non-Jewish Relations. She is the author of Josephus: The Historian and His Society (London 1984) and joint editor of The Jews Among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire (London 1993).