TY - CHAP
T1 - Roman attitudes to Jews and Judaism in the first century B.C.E
T2 - between Hellenistic traditions and local realities
AU - Ben Zeev, Miriam Pucci
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.
PY - 2016/6/20
Y1 - 2016/6/20
N2 - The question addressed is whether and in which measure Latin accounts written in the first century B.C.E. dealing with the Jewish people made use of previous Hellenistic sources. From a comparison of extant literary works, it emerges that only one Roman historian, Pompeius Trogus, himself of Gallic origins, consulted Greek, Syrian, Egyptian and Jewish sources while dealing with the Jews. Other Romans who wrote about the Jews at the time, such as Cicero, Varro, Livy, Tibullus, Horace and Ovid, reveal little interest in the views of previous Hellenistic sources about them. What really mattered for them was the social and political dimension of local life and the priorities of their own society.
AB - The question addressed is whether and in which measure Latin accounts written in the first century B.C.E. dealing with the Jewish people made use of previous Hellenistic sources. From a comparison of extant literary works, it emerges that only one Roman historian, Pompeius Trogus, himself of Gallic origins, consulted Greek, Syrian, Egyptian and Jewish sources while dealing with the Jews. Other Romans who wrote about the Jews at the time, such as Cicero, Varro, Livy, Tibullus, Horace and Ovid, reveal little interest in the views of previous Hellenistic sources about them. What really mattered for them was the social and political dimension of local life and the priorities of their own society.
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U2 - 10.1515/9783110435283-009
DO - 10.1515/9783110435283-009
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85140673516
SN - 9783110441031
T3 - Studia Judaica
SP - 111
EP - 125
BT - "Let the Wise Listen and add to Their Learning" (Prov 1:5)
A2 - Cordoni, Constanza
A2 - Langer, Gerhard
PB - de Gruyter
ER -