Looking In, Looking Out: Jews and Non-Jews in Mutual Contemplation

Kimberley Czajkowski (DPhil 2015) is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the history of the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. David A. Friedman (DPhil 2017) is an Affiliated Researcher in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge, and a Bye-Fellow at Darwin College and St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. His research focuses on Jews (especially Josephus) in the Greco-Roman world.

• AbbreviationsContributorsIntroductionKimberley Czajkowski and David FriedmanPart 1: Looking In1 Historiography in the Time of Stasis: Reflections on the Nationalistic Uprisings in Judea/PalestineJonathan Price2 The Ban on Circumcision as a Cause of the Bar Kokhba Revolt: A ReconsiderationAharon Oppenheimer z”l3 “When I Die, Kill Those Elders”: The Twice-Told Tale of a Despot’s DeathAmram Tropper4 Pitying Suppliant AnimalsShaye J. D. Cohen5 Who Are Israel in the Mishnah and Tosefta?Yehudah B. CohnPart 2: Looking Out6 Playing with the Moabites: Textual and Linguistic Reflections on Isaiah 15–16H. G. M. Williamson7 Greek Identity in Josephus’s Against ApionJonathan Davies8 Josephus and Nicolaus on Arabs and ArabiaDaniel R. Schwartz9 Calendars and Dates in the Early Decades of Provincia Arabia: A ReappraisalSacha Stern10 The Rule of the Wise as an Alternative to Kingship and Democracy in Ancient Rabbinic and Philosophical ThoughtCatherine Hezser11 A Tale of Two Cities: Rome and Jerusalem in Jewish Eschatology between 70 CE and 135 CEPhilip AlexanderPart 3: Looking Back Again12 Monotheism and Religious Wars in AntiquityBenjamin Isaac13 Did First-Century Asian Jews Live in “Communities”?Seth Schwartz14 Jewish–Christian Polemic in Martyrium PioniiWilliam Horbury15 Friendships between Jews and Christians in AntiquityMarkus Bockmuehl16 Jerome, Jews, and “Hebrews”Alison G. Salvesen17 Rufinus of Aquileia’s Eusebian Therapeutae: A Monastic Reinterpretation of Philo’s De vita contemplativaSabrina Inowlocki18 Antiochus Proposes, Shmoni Disposes: A Syriac Poem on the Martyrs of 2 Maccabees 7Sebastian Brock19 Josephus for GirlsTessa RajakAppendix: M. D. Goodman’s PublicationsIndex of Ancient SourcesIndex of AuthorsIndex of Subjects