Jewish ethnic identity and relations in Hellenistic Egypt : with walls of iron? /

In Jewish Ethnic Identity and Relations in Hellenistic Egypt , Stewart Moore investigates the foundations of common assumptions about ethnicity. To maintain one's identity in a strange land, was it always necessary to band tightly together with one's coethnics? Sociologists and anthropolog...

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Main Author: Moore, Stewart Alden
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015
Series:Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 171.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Thicker than water? A social-scientific approach to ancient Judean ethnicity
  • The history of dustbins: reconstructing ethnicity from the papyri
  • Reflections on the Nile: Hellenistic ethnographers and the Greco-Egyptian boundary
  • From the mouths of beasts: ethnic identity in apocalyptic literature from Egypt
  • For the sake of mice and weasels: ethnic boundaries and the "cultural stuff" in the Letter of Aristeas.