Frontispiece

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The Jewish–Greek Tradition in Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vii

Figures

pp viii-viii

Contributors

pp ix-x

Preface

pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiii

Abbreviations

pp xiv-xxii

Chapter 1 - Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - History

pp 13-76

Chapter 2 - Jews and Graeco-Roman culture

pp 15-36

Chapter 3 - The Jewish experience in Byzantium

pp 37-53

Chapter 4 - Jews and Jewish communities in the Balkans and the Aegean until the twelfth century

pp 54-76

Part II - Historiography

pp 77-102

Chapter 5 - Origen and the Jews:Jewish–Greek and Jewish–Christian relations

pp 79-90

Chapter 6 - Jewish–Greek studies in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germany

pp 91-102

Part III - Greek Bible and language

pp 103-170

Chapter 7 - The origins of the Septuagint

pp 105-119

Chapter 8 - The language of the Septuagint and Jewish–Greek identity

pp 120-134

Chapter 9 - Afterlives of the Septuagint

pp 135-151

Chapter 10 - Medieval and Early Modern Judaeo-Greek biblical translations

pp 152-170

Part IV - Culture

pp 171-299

Chapter 11 - Philo’s knowledge of Hebrew

pp 173-187

Chapter 12 - The plain and laughter

pp 188-199

Chapter 13 - Jewish archaeology and art in antiquity

pp 200-214

Chapter 14 - Jewish–Greek epigraphy in antiquity

pp 215-228

Chapter 15 - The Rabbis, the Greek Bible and Hellenism

pp 229-246

Chapter 16 - Greek–Hebrew linguistic contacts in late antique and medieval magical texts

pp 247-260