Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it Matter? 9783110684780, 9783110685657, 9783110685800, 2020941962
This study raises that difficult and complicated question on a broad front, taking into account the expressions and atti
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Were Barbarians Barbaric?
2 Herodotus and Greekness
3 The Racial Judgments of Polybius
4 Rome’s Multiple Identities and Tangled Perspectives
5 Constructed Ethnicities in Republican Italy
6 The Chosen People and Mixed Marriages
7 Did Hellenistic Jews Consider Themselves a Race or a Religion?
8 Philo and Jewish Ethnicity
9 The Ethnic Vocabulary of Josephus
10 The Racial Reflections of Paul
11 Christians as a “Third Race”?
12 Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary source index
General Index
