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Negotiating Diaspora: Jewish Strategies in the Roman Empire »

Authors: Barclay
ISBN-13: 9780567082947, ISBN-10: 0567082946
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Date Published: July 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Introduction : diaspora negotiations	1
Pt. I	Local and translocal identities
	Being a Jew in Rome : Sabbath fasting as an expression of Romano-Jewish identity	8
	Jerusalem as 'mother-city' in the writings of Philo of Alexandria	19
Pt. II	Clarity and ambiguity in cultural expression
	The Jews in the Balkan provinces of the Roman empire : the evidence from the territory of Bulgaria	38
	The Christian and Jewish Eumeneian formula	66
Pt. III	Josephus, power and the politics of representation
	Constructing Judaean history in the diaspora : Josephus's accounts of Judas	90
	The politics of contempt : Judaeans and Egyptians in Josephus's Against Apion	109