Peter Schäfer is University Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Institut für Judaistik, Freie Universität Berlin.

[Judeophobia] casts new light on, and suggests a new understanding of, an area that has been a controversial field ever since Theodor Mommsen, in…his Römische Geshichte in 1884, made the ‘rather casual statement’ that ‘hatred of the Jews and Jew-baiting are as old as the Diaspora itself’… [It is a] learned and absorbing book.

• Introduction Who Are the Jews? Expulsion from Egypt The Jewish God Abstinence from Pork Sabbath Circumcision Proselytism Two Key Historical Incidents Elephantine Alexandria Centers of Conflict Egypt Syria-Palestine Rome Anti-Semitism Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

Peter Schäfer is University Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Institut für Judaistik, Freie Universität Berlin.

[Judeophobia] casts new light on, and suggests a new understanding of, an area that has been a controversial field ever since Theodor Mommsen, in…his Römische Geshichte in 1884, made the ‘rather casual statement’ that ‘hatred of the Jews and Jew-baiting are as old as the Diaspora itself’… [It is a] learned and absorbing book.

• Introduction Who Are the Jews? Expulsion from Egypt The Jewish God Abstinence from Pork Sabbath Circumcision Proselytism Two Key Historical Incidents Elephantine Alexandria Centers of Conflict Egypt Syria-Palestine Rome Anti-Semitism Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index