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| Title: Jews and Greeks in Ancient Cyrene Secondary Title: SJLA 28 Type: Book Year: 1979 Abstract: "This is the revision of a book published in Hebrew in 1969, whose origins lie in the author's wartime superintendence, for the British army, of antiquities in Cyrenaica. His subsequent study of the area's archaeology has, it appears, depended in the main on the published record (almost all of it from before 1969), but he writes with the expert eye of a practising archaeologist. His subject is the evidence for Jewish communities and Jewish peasants in Cyrenaica. From their installation under Ptolemy I to their scattering in 117 A.D.. This is set against the history of the Greek colony of Cyrene, from its much earlier beginnings, and against the general development of the area, especially its changing patterns of landholding. The most important elements area an investigation of whether the Jews constituted a separate civic entity in the polis (taken together with the case of Alexandria); an analysis of names and other data found on what are probably Jewish tombstones from the cemetery at Teucheira (to the East of Berenike - Benghazi); and an intensive, sometimes conjectural investigation of the background and of the effects, hugely destructive in Applebaum's vies, of the Jewish revolt under Trajan. This last discussion, too, has a wide frame of reference, taking in also the other loci of revolt. The argument is often conducted in a rather technical and allusive manner, so that the book can be difficult reading at times". - T. Rajak Keywords: Archaeology, topography, local and regional history |