Review of Mason, Jews and Christians in the Roman world

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Jews and Christians in the Roman world: from historical method to cases.

Steve Mason, Jews and Christians in the Roman world: from historical method to cases. Ancient Judaism and early Christianity, 116. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. x, 691. ISBN 9789004543874.

Review by
Paula Fredriksen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. augfred@bu.edu

... “This is not a dump of stray essays,” Mason tells his reader in the introduction (1). It is, rather, a gathering of articles published in hard-to-access places—conference volumes, Festschriften, and various volumes of collected essays—that cohere around certain themes central to Mason’s work. A premier theme is historiography, modern no less than ancient. “What is historical method?” (1). ...

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