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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 | |