Japheth in the tents of Shem : studies on Jewish Hellenism in antiquity

Peeters

2002

272 p.

Contributions to biblical exegesis and theology ; 32

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Greek in Jewish Palestine in the light of Jewish epigraphy. --The last Jewish patriarch(s) and Graeco-Roman medicine. --Neglected Greek evidence for early Jewish liturgical prayer. --Was the synagogue a place of Sabbath worship before 70 CE? --Greek synagogue prayers in the Apostolic Constitutions, book VII. --Jews and Christians in Antioch at the end of the fourth century. --The tombs of the prophets in early Judaism. --Antediluvian knowledge. --Sortes : sacred books as instant oracles in late Antiquity. --Celibacy in early Judaism. --Maria Alchemista, the first female Jewish author. --Who was Apion? --The distinctive vocabulary of Josephus' Contra Apionem. --The Samaritan languages in the pre-Islamic period. --Samaritans at Rome?

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