Jews and Christians in Their Graeco-Roman Context

Born 1946; 1978 Ph.D.; Professor of New Testament, Early Christian Literature, Ancient Judaism, and Hellenism at Utrecht University.

• IntroductionThe Jews of Ancient CreteThe Jews of Ancient CyprusThe Jews of Ancient SicilyThe Synagogue of Sardis and its InscriptionsJews and Blues in Late AntiquityA Note on the Evil Inclination and Sexual Desire in Talmudic Literature"His Days Shall Be One Hundred and Twenty Years". Genesis 6:3 in Early Judaism and Ancient ChristianityInscriptiones Judaicae Orientis. A Review ArticleHuldah's Tomb in Early Jewish TraditionPseudo-Phocylides on the Afterlife. A Rejoinder to John CollinsPhilo's In Flaccum and the Book of ActsCommon Prayer in Philo's In Flaccum 121-124Philo and the Rabbis on Genesis. Similar Questions, Different AnswersPhilo of Alexandria on the Wrath of GodAnti-Samaritan Propaganda in Early JudaismJacques Basnage (1653-1723) on the Samaritans. Or: How much did one know about the Samaritans three centuries ago in the Netherlands?Once More: The Translation of οἱ δέ. in Matthew 28:17Abraham's Bosom, the Place Where He Belonged. A Short Note on ἀπενεχθῆναι in Luke 16:22"Snorting Threat and Murder". The Hellenistic Background of Acts 9:1"Only then will all Israel be saved". A Short Note on the Meaning of καὶ οὕτως in Romans 11:26Macarius Magnes and the Unnamed Anti-Christian Polemicist. A review articleA New Early Christian Poem on the Sacrifice of Isaac (Pap. Bodmer 30)The Role of Scripture in Cyril of Scythopolis' Lives of the Monks of PalestineTwenty-Five Questions to Corner the Jews. A Byzantine Anti-Jewish Document from the Seventh Century"The Most Superstitious and Disgusting of All Nations". Diogenes of Oenoanda on the JewsThe Shadow in Hellenistic Popular BeliefThe First AtheistSubtractive Versus Additive Composite Numerals in Ancient LanguagesThe Great Magical Papyrus of Paris (PGM IV) and the Bible"The God Who Drowned the King of Egypt". A Short Note on an Exorcistic FormulaOriginal places of publicationBibliography of Pieter W. van der Horst, 1970-2005