Bibliography
| Title: Diaspora Jews and Judaism. Essays of Honor of, and in Dialogue with, A. Thomas Kraabel Secondary Title: SFSHJ 41 Type: Edited Book Year: 1992 Abstract: "The essay honoring Kraabel's 25 years of work on diaspora Jews in the Roman period are meant also to be discussion with him. Accordingly, each of the three sections opens with a series of his papers; they are followed by the reactions of others. Part I: Diaspora Jews and Judaism: Assumptions and Method' begins with three of Krabbels's essays: The Roman Diaspora: Six Questionable Assumptions; Unity and Diversity Among Diaspora Synagogues; and Synagoga Caeca: Systematic Distortion in Gentile Interpretations of Evidence for Judaism in the Early Christian Period. To these three others respond: Overman, the Diaspora in the Modern Study of Ancient Judaism; J. Neusner, The Two Vocabularies of Symbolic Discourse in Ancient Judaism; and A.-J. Levine, Diaspora as Metaphor: Bodies and Boundaries in the Book of Tobit; Part II: Diaspora Jews, Judaism and Formative Christianity begins with two papers by Kraabel: The Disappearance of the "God-Fearers"; and (with MacLennan), The God-Fearers. Some Neglected Features; D. J. Harrington, Christians and Jews in Colossians; C. J. Roetzel, Oikoumene and the Limits of Pluralism in Alexandrian Judaism and Paul; H. C. Kee, The Jews in Acts; Kraabel then re-enters the debate with Melito the Bishop and the Synagogue at Sardis: Jews and Christians. Part III: Diaspora Jews and Judaism and the Roman World starts with three other papers by Kraabel: Paganism and Judaism: The Sardis Evidence; Social Systems of Six Diaspora Synagogues; and Impact of the Discovery of the Sardis Synagogue. The others in this section are: D. R. Edwards, Religion, Power and Politics: Jewish Defeats by the Romans in Iconography and Josephus; R. S. Kraemer, On the Meaning of the term "Jew" in Greco-Roman Inscriptions; Kraabel, New Evidence of the Samaritan Diaspora Has Been Found on Delos; and J. Collins, The King has Become a Jew. The Perspective on the Gentile World in Bel and Snake. Kraabel contributes an Afterword, and the collection ends with a bibliography of his works and an index of authors". Keywords: Cultural and Religious History of Ancient Judaism |