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Preface | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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The Jewish Diaspora in the Hellenistic and early Roman imperial periods | |
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Introduction | |
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Its extent in prophecy and actuality | |
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Reasons for the diffusion of the Jews | |
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Evidence for Jewish mobility within the Graeco-Roman world | |
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Statistical information about Diasporan Jews | |
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Location of Jewish communities | |
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Occupations of Diasporan Jews | |
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Terminology for Diasporan communities | |
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Life inside the Jewish Diasporan community | |
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The synagogue as the focal point of community life | |
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Officials and dignitaries | |
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Community structures other than the synagogue | |
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Community values | |
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Distinctive Jewish practices | |
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Jewish festivals | |
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Divisions within the Jewish community | |
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Diasporan Jews and the Jewish homeland | |
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Pilgrimage to Jerusalem | |
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Payment of ancestral dues and taxes | |
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Offerings to the Temple by Diasporan Jews | |
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Diasporan charitable and military aid to Palestinian Jews | |
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Diasporan Jews and the transmission of information to Jerusalem | |
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Immigration to Judaea of Diasporan Jews | |
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Diasporan burials in Judaea | |
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The Judaean authorities and the Diasporan synagogue | |
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The Patriarchs and the Diaspora | |
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Palestinian influence on the language of Diasporan inscriptions | |
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Jewish interaction with Greek and Roman authorities | |
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Jewish honours for Ptolemaic rulers | |
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Ptolemaic and Seleucid privileges for the Jews | |
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Jews in the service of the Seleucids and Ptolemies | |
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Jewish honours for Roman Emperors | |
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Privileges for Jews who were Roman citizens | |
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Roman protection of the Jewish way of life | |
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Jews in the service of the Roman government | |
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Measures taken or threatened against the Jews by the Roman authorities | |
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The Jews among the Greeks | |
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Jews as citizens of Greek cities | |
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Jews as councillors, magistrates and official envoys | |
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Jewish influence upon Greek civic life | |
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Jewish involvement in Greek cultural life | |
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Greek cultural influences on the Jews | |
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Intermarriage between Jews and Greeks | |
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Friction between Jews and Greeks | |
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Jewish relations with Christians in the Greek East | |
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The Jews among the Romans | |
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Jews and the Roman citizenship | |
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Jewish involvement in local government in the West | |
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Jewish involvement in Roman cultural and religious life | |
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Roman cultural influence on the Jews | |
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Jewish interaction with Christians in the Roman West | |
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Pagans and Judaism: academic and real-life responses | |
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Two academic views of the Jews and Judaism | |
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Pagans sympathetic to Judaism | |
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Pagan converts to Judaism - the proselytes | |
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Other adherents to Judaism - instances of disputed status | |
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Syncretist cults | |
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Notes | |
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Appendices | |
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Main events mentioned in this sourcebook | |
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Select list of rulers | |
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Egyptian months and their Julian equivalents | |
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Glossary of selected names | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Bibliography | |
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Concordance of sources | |
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Literary texts | |
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Inscriptions | |
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Papyri | |
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Legal texts | |
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Coins | |
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Modern collections of ancient legal and literary texts | |
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Indices | |
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People | |
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Places | |
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Jewish community terminology | |
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Jewish occupations | |
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Miscellaneous topics | |