Jewish Identity in the Greco-Roman World

Jörg Frey, Dr. theol. habil., is Professor of New Testament interpretation at the University of Munich (Germany). He has published extensively on Qumran, Apocalypticism, Paul and, especially, the Johannine literature, including Die johanneische Eschatologie (3 volumes, 1997-2000).Daniel R. Schwartz, Ph.D., is Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Israel). He has published extensively on Josephus and the History of the Second Temple period, including a commentary on 2 Maccabees (in Hebrew, 2004).Stephanie Gripentrog, M.A., is lecturer at the chair of Religious Studies at the Theological Faculty of the University of Basel (Switzerland)

"The essays of this volume are of high quality and provide fresh perspectives...Th e methodology which the authors of these twelve essays use and the questions which they raise also apply to other quests for, and studies of, identity. Th ese essays will provide insights on a number of religious (and other!) issues currently discussed in Southern African churches and communities." – Christoph Stenschke, in: Religion and Theology 16 (2009)

• Preface PART ONE. Jewish Identity and Jewish Universalism 1/ Daniel R. Schwartz — “Judaean” or “Jew”? How should we translate ioudaios in Josephus?2/ Jutta Leonhardt Balzer — Jewish Worship and Universal Identity in Philo of Alexandria3/ Stefan Krauter — Die Beteiligung von Nichtjuden am Jerusalemer TempelkultPART TWO. On Being In, Getting In and Getting Out 4/ Tal Ilan — The Woman als “Other” in Rabbinic Literature5/ Daniel R. Schwartz — Doing Like Jews or Becoming a Jew? Josephus on Women Converts to Judaism6/ Gottfried Schimanowski — Die jüdische Integration in die Oberschicht Alexandriens und die angebliche Apostasie des Tiberius Julius Alexander 7/ Sarah K. Pearce — Philo on the NilePART THREE. Greco-Roman Influence8/ Randolf Herrmann — Die Gemeinderegel von Qumran und das hellenistische Vereinswesen9/ Monika Bernett — Der Kaiserkult in Judäa unter herodischer und römischer Herrschaft:Zu Herausbildung und Herausforderung neuer Konzepte jüdischer Herrschaftslegitimation10/ Walter Ameling — Die jüdischen Gemeinden Kleinasiens und der “epigraphic habit”PART FOUR. Jewish Identity in Early Christianity 11/ Jörg Frey — Paul’s Jewish Identity12/ Roland Deines — Das Aposteldekret – Halacha für Heidenchristen oder christliche Rücksichtnahme auf jüdische Tabus?Index