Synopses & Reviews
The book provides an invaluable and coherent description of the life of Jewish communities in Asia Minor.
Synopsis
This book brings together the evidence for significant Jewish communities in Asia Minor, by collating archaeological, epigraphic, classical, New Testament and patristic sources. The book provides an invaluable and coherent description of the life of Jewish communities in Asia Minor, and so gives a more complete picture than was previously available of Jewish life at the time.
Table of Contents
Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Jewish communities of Asia Minor in literary sources; 2. The Jewish communities at Sardis and Priene; 3. The Jewish community at Acmonia; 4. The Jewish community at Apamea; 5. The prominence of women in Asia Minor; 6. Theos Hypsistos and Sabazios - syncretism in Judaism in Asia Minor?; 7. 'God-worshippers' in Asia Minor; 8. Jewish community and Greek city in Asia Minor; Conclusions; Notes; References; Indices.