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| Preface | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Diaspora Setting | |
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| Gentile Perceptions of Judaism | |
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| Jewish Apologetics | |
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| Hellenistic Judaism and Judea | |
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| The Constraints of the Tradition | |
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| Relations with the Gentile Environment | |
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| Prospect | |
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| National and Political Identity | |
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| The Uses of the Past | |
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| The Faithful Chroniclers | |
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| Demetrius | |
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| The Followers of Demetrius | |
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| History and Romance | |
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| Artapanus | |
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| Eupolemus | |
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| Pseudo-Eupolemus? | |
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| Thallus and Cleodemus | |
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| Pseudo-Hecataeus | |
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| The Epic Poets | |
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| Philo | |
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| Theodotus | |
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| Jewish Historiography in the First Century C.E. | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Religion and Politics: The Ptolemaic Era | |
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| The History of the Jews in Ptolemaic Egypt | |
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| Onias and Leontopolis | |
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| The Background of Onias | |
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| The Tale of the Tobiads | |
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| 2 Maccabees and the Oniads | |
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| 2 Maccabees and the Diaspora | |
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| The Third Sibyl | |
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| The Content of Sibylline Oracle 3 | |
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| The Seventh King | |
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| The Analogy with the Persian Period | |
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| The King from the Sun | |
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| Jerusalem and the Gentile Kings | |
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| A Ptolemaic Messiah | |
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| The Provenance of Sibylline Oracle 3 | |
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| The Letter of Aristeas | |
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| Joseph and Aseneth | |
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| Greek Esther | |
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| Religion and Politics: The Roman Period | |
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| The Status of the Jews in Roman Egypt | |
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| The Third Book of Maccabees | |
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| Philo's Politics | |
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| The Events of 66-73 C.E. | |
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| The Background of the Great Revolt | |
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| The Fifth Sibyl | |
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| The Later Sibyllines | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Identity Through Ethics and Piety | |
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| The Common Ethic | |
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| Judaism according to Hecataeus | |
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| The Basis for a Common Ethic | |
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| The Sibylline Oracles | |
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| The Third Sibyl | |
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| Sibylline Oracle 5 | |
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| Sibylline Oracle 4 | |
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| The Sibylline Fragments | |
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| Pseudo-Phocylides | |
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| The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs | |
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| The Testaments and the Covenant Form | |
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| The Content of the Exhortations | |
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| Homiletic Material in the Testaments | |
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| The Ethic of the Testaments | |
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| The Role of the Synagogue | |
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| Philosophical Judaism | |
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| Aristobulus | |
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| Poetic Forgeries | |
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| Pseudo-Aristeas | |
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| The Wisdom of Solomon | |
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| Fourth Maccabees | |
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| The Mysteries of God | |
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| Mystic Judaism | |
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| A Mystic Ritual? | |
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| Mystic Philosophy | |
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| Esotericism | |
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| Heavenly Revelations | |
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| The Pseudo-Orphic Fragments | |
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| Ezekiel the Tragedian | |
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| Joseph and Aseneth | |
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| Ritual Elements in Joseph and Aseneth? | |
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| Group Membership | |
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| The Episode of the Honeycomb | |
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| The Representative Roles of Joseph and Aseneth | |
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| A Corpus Permixtum | |
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| Lack of Sectarian Character | |
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| The Prayer of Joseph | |
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| The Testament of Job | |
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| The Struggle with Satan | |
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| The Confrontation with the Friends | |
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| The Role of the Women | |
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| The Religion of the Testament of Job | |
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| The Books of Adam and Eve | |
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| The Testament of Abraham | |
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| The Perspective on Death | |
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| The View of Judaism | |
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| 2 Enoch | |
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| The Hortatory Message | |
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| 3 Baruch | |
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| The Attitude toward Jerusalem | |
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| A System of Individual Rewards | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Jews and Gentiles | |
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| A Jewish Mission? | |
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| The "God-fearers" | |
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| The Function of the Literature | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Indexes | |
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| Subjects | |
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| Modern Authors | |
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| Ancient Literature | |