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| Title: The Jews among the Greeks and Romans. A diasporan sourcebook Type: Generic Year: 1998 Abstract: "In The Jews among the Greeks and Romans, Margaret Williams assembles, assesses, and contextualizes literary and archaeological evidence relating to Jewish communities outside the land of Israel. The source book covers the period beginning with the Diaspora that resulted from the chaos of Alexander the Great's death in 323 B.C.E and concluding with the demise of the Jewish Patriarchate around 420 C.E. This was a time which saw, first, the rapid opening up of opportunities for Jews and then. In the century after Constantine, the gradual but inexorable raising of barriers against them. While previous collections have concentrated on literary texts, the present volume gives prominence to papyrological and epigraphic source material. Composed in accordance with Graeco-Roman epigraphic conventions but written by Jews, these texts - some only recently discovered - constitute an extraordinarily rich source of information about the values and practices of Jews in antiquity." Keywords: Hellenism, Hellenistic Judaism, Philo |