{"product_id":"jew-and-gentile-in-the-ancient-world-9780691029276","title":"Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World","description":"\u003cp\u003eRelations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate  maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true  asks Louis Feldman  how did Jews succeed in winning so many adherents  whether full-fledged proselytes or \"sympathizers\" who adopted one or more Jewish practices? Systematically evaluating attitudes toward Jews from the time of Alexander the Great to the fifth century A.D.  Feldman finds that Judaism elicited strongly positive and not merely unfavorable responses from the non-Jewish population. Jews were a vigorous presence in the ancient world  and Judaism was strengthened substantially by the development of the Talmud. Although Jews in the Diaspora were deeply Hellenized  those who remained in Israel were able to resist the cultural inroads of Hellenism and even to initiate intellectual counterattacks.  Feldman draws on a wide variety of material  from Philo  Josephus  and other Graeco-Jewish writers through the Apocrypha  the Pseudepigrapha  the Church Councils  Church Fathers  and imperial decrees to Talmudic and Midrashic writings and inscriptions and papyri. What emerges is a rich description of a long era to which conceptions of Jewish history as uninterrupted weakness and suffering do not apply.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651860684853,"sku":"ByrdShop_069102927X","price":76.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691029276.jpg?v=1781842591","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/jew-and-gentile-in-the-ancient-world-9780691029276","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}