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| Title: Judeophobia. Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World Type: Generic Year: 1997 Abstract: "In his investigation of hostile attitudes toward Jews in the pagan Greco-Roman world, Schäfer, professor of Jewish studies and director of the Institut für Judaistik at the Freie Universität of Berlin, first analyzes the major topics and motifs referring to Jews and Judaism in Greco-Roman literature: expulsion from Egypt, the Jewish God, abstinence from pork, Sabbath observance, circumcision, and proselytism. Then he examines two historical events associated with fierce outbursts of hostility toward Jews: the disturbances of 410 B.C. in the Egyptian military settlement on the island of Elephantine, and the riots of A.D. 38 in Alexandria. Finally he considers the three major centers of conflict (Egypt, Syria-Palestine, and Rome), and concludes that Hellenistic Egypt ca. 300 B.C. was the ""mother"" of anti-Semitism - with roots reaching back into Egypt's pre-Hellenistic history." Keywords: Josephus as Apologist, Ancient anti-Judaism |