TY  - BOOK
AU  - Feldman,Louis H.
TI  - Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World: Attitudes and Interactions from Alexander to Justinian
SN  - 9781400820801 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BM534 
U1  - 261.26 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Religion
KW  - Jews
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - History
KW  - 586 B.C.-70 A.D
KW  - 70-638
KW  - Antisemitism
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Controversial literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Proselytes and proselyting, Jewish
KW  - Philosemitism
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / General
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1: Contacts between Jews and Non-Jews in the Land of Israel; CHAPTER 2: The Strength of Judaism in the Diaspora; CHAPTER 3: Official Anti-Jewish Bigotry: The Responses of Governments to the Jews; CHAPTER 4: Popular Prejudice against Jews; CHAPTER 5: Prejudice against Jews among Ancient Intellectuals; CHAPTER 6: The Attractions of the Jews: Their Antiquity; CHAPTER 7: The Attractions of the Jews: The Cardinal Virtues; CHAPTER 8: The Attractions of the Jews: The Ideal Leader, Moses; CHAPTER 9: The Success of Proselytism by Jews in the Hellenistic and Early Roman PeriodsCHAPTER 10: The Success of Jews in Winning "Sympathizers"; CHAPTER 11: Proselytism by Jews in the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Centuries; CHAPTER 12: Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Indexes
N2  - Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true, asks Louis Feldman, how did Jews succeed in winning so many adherents, whether full-fledged proselytes or "sympathizers" who adopted one or more Jewish practices? Systematically evaluating attitudes toward Jews from the time of Alexander the Great to the fifth century A.D., Feldman finds that Judaism elicited strongly positive and not merely unfavorable responses from the non-Jewish population. Jews were a vigoro
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