Jew-hatred in the Second Temple period / edited by Benedikt Josef Collinet and Frank Ueberschaer.

Format Book
Publication[Berlin] : De Gruyter, [2025]
Copyright Date©2025
Descriptionviii, 301 pages ; 24 cm.
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Other author/creatorCollinet, Benedikt Josef, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjBHyPgkqyGKHQYB43XhMd
Other author/creatorUeberschaer, Frank, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJm4PdxymY3fHfqyj4kYyd
Other author/creatorSociety of Biblical Literature. Annual Meeting (2021 : San Antonio, Tex.)
Other author/creatorSociety of Biblical Literature. Annual Meeting (2022 : Denver, Colo.)
Other author/creatorSociety of Biblical Literature. International Meeting (2022 : Salzburg, Austria)
SeriesDeuterocanonical and cognate literature studies, 1865-1666
Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies ; volume 58. ^A1255534
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
Abstract "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 proveniences: from Jewish literature in Greek language (e.g. Septuagint and Philo) to the works of Greek and Roman authors. Thus, prejudices, resentments and violence against Jews will be addressed and analyzed as well as how the Jewish community opposed it both pragmatically and intellectually. The historically oriented contributions are complemented by an essay in which past and present experiences are related to each other." --Page [4] of cover.
General noteContains papers presented at the sessions of the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Program Unit at the annual meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature held in 2021 and 2022 and the sessions "Antisemitism in Second Temple Literature" at the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2022.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
Language11 contributions in English, 1 in German
ISBN9783111032375
ISBN311103237X

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