Jewish Life and Thought Among Greeks and Romans

Jacket Description/Back: This comprehensive treasury of sources on Judaism in the ancient period will be valued and used by students, scholars, and general readers who are interested in Jewish history, classical studies, or the origins of Christianity. This book includes the most comprehensive coverage available of sources in the area of anti-Semitism and (what is usually more neglected) philo-Semitism. It coordinates literary, epigraphical, papyrological, and numismatic evidence.

Contributor Bio:  Feldman, Louis H Louis H. Feldman is Professor of Classics at Yeshiva University. His books include "Josephus and Modern Scholarship, 1937-1980" (1984), "Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World: Attitudes and Interactions from Alexander to Justinian" (1993), and "Studies in Hellenistic Judaism" (1996). Contributor Bio:  Reinhold, Meyer Meyer Reinhold was born in Brooklyn on September 1, 1909. He attended Columbia University, where he earned a Ph. D. in Ancient History in 1933. He founded The Institute for the Classical Tradition after becoming Professor Emeritus at Boston University in 1980. He authored 23 books during his lifetime, and passed away in Nashville Tennessee.