Jew-hatred in the Second Temple period /
"The experience of violence and verbal harassment was and still is an oppressive reality for Jews. This volume focusses on Jew-hatred and how it was encountered in the Second Temple period. It includes contributions on very different literature from the Hellenistic and Roman times from various...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German |
| Language Notes: | 11 contributions in English, 1 in German |
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[Berlin] :
De Gruyter,
[2025]
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| Series: | Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies ;
volume 58. |
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Table of Contents:
- An overview of the volume / Georg Fischer
- Antisemitic motives for the persecution of Jews in the Second Temple period as attested in Esther 3 (MT and Old Greek) and in Philo's In Flaccum / Karin Finsterbusch
- Jews as a "warlike and rebellious people" - the intensification of anti-Jewish sentiments in the ancient Esther traditions, focusing on MT, OG and AT 3:8 and its parallels in addition B / Helge Bezold and Kristin De Troyer
- Defining boundaries: inclusion and exclusion of Judean groups in 1 and 2 Maccabees / Jana Hock
- Jews and others: characterization, stereotypes, and prototypes in 2 Maccabees / Jan Willem van Henten
- Jewish identity, maternal pedagogy, and the charity of martyrdom in 2 Maccabees 7 / Jordan Schmidt
- Der Drohende Ethnozid der Juden im 3. Makkabäerbuch. Eine jüdische Perspektive auf die "Feindschaft der Völker" / Stefan Pfeiffer
- Bringing on contempt: mechanisms of Judeophobia and despising the despiser in 3 Maccabees / Frank Ueberschaer
- The accusation of misanthropy against the Jews in antiquity: a stoic background? / Katell Berthelot
- Exile and diaspora in Philo in the light of Hellenistic philosophical discourse on exile / Sung Soo Hong
- Tacitus's excursus on the Jews (Histories 5.2-10) within its historical context / Torsten Jantsch
- Arcana Iudaeorum: anti-Semitism and Juvenal Satira 14 / Massimo Gargiulo
- Jew-hatred: ethnicity and practice / Amy-Jill Levine