Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Review of Eckhardt, Private associations and Jewish communities ...

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Private associations and Jewish communities in the Hellenistic and Roman cities.
Benedikt Eckhardt, Private associations and Jewish communities in the Hellenistic and Roman cities. Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, 191. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 227 p.. ISBN 9789004405370 €105,00.

Review by
Ryan Boehm, Tulane University. rboehm@tulane.edu

This volume offers a fresh reappraisal of a longstanding debate: did Jewish collectivities in the Hellenistic and Roman periods belong to the wider phenomenon of Greek and Roman private/voluntary associations or were they sui generis? ...

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