Review of Bloch, Ancient Jewish diaspora

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Ancient Jewish diaspora: essays on Hellenism.

René Bloch, Ancient Jewish diaspora: essays on Hellenism. Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, 206. Boston; Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. xii, 373. ISBN 9789004521889

Review by
Jocelyn Burney, University of Missouri. jburney@missouri.edu

... The scope of the essays in this volume—ranging from close readings of Philo to the twenty-first–century misuse of a Roman bust of identified as Josephus—is a credit to the author. Bloch reminds us that the complex negotiation that defines life in diaspora continues to this day, making close study of ancient evidence and careful detangling of historiography equally critical.

I noted the publication of the book here.

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