The book addresses critical issues of the formation and development of Jewish identity in the late Second Temple period. How could Jewish identity be defined? W

This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature and history of early J

'I am a Christian' is the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts and, no doubt, of many others; but what did this confession mean, and how was early

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The articles discuss various aspects of Jewish identity in the Greco-Roman period. Was there a common ‘Jewish’ identity, and how could it be defined? How co