The Significance of Yavneh and Other Essays in Jewish Hellenism

Born 1948; 1975 PhD in Ancient History, Columbia University; 1974-91 Professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York; 1991-2001 Professor at Brown University; since 2001 Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy (Jewish Studies), Harvard University.

• Jewish HellenismThe Beauty of Flora and the Beauty of Sarai - Sosates the Jewish Homer - The Destruction: From Scripture to Midrash - The Significance of Yavneh - Patriarchs and Scholarchs - False Prophets (4Q339), Netinim (4Q340), and Hellenism at QumranJosephusJosephus, Jeremiah, and Polybius - History and Historiography in the Against Apion of Josephus - Masada: Literary Tradition, Archaeological Remains, and the Credibility of Josephus - Parallel Historical Tradition in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature - Alexander the Great and Jaddus the High Priest According to Josephus - Respect for Judaism by Gentiles in the Writings of Josephus - Ioudaios to genos and Related Expressions in JosephusSynagogues and RabbisEpigraphical Rabbis - Pagan and Christian Evidence on the Ancient Synagogue - Were Pharisees and Rabbis the Leaders of Communal Prayer and Torah Study in Antiquity? The Evidence of the New Testament, Josephus, and the Early Church Fathers - The Place of the Rabbi in the Jewish Society of the Second CenturyConversion and IntermarriageWas Judaism in Antiquity a Missionary Religion? - Adolf Harnack's The Mission and Expansion of Judaism: Christianity Succeeds where Judaism Fails - Is 'Proselyte Baptism' Mentioned in the Mishnah? The Interpretation of M. Pesahim 8:8 - The Conversion of Antoninus - On Murdering or Injuring a Proselyte - Solomon and the Daughter of Pharaoh: Intermarriage, Conversion, and the Impurity of WomenWomen and BloodMenstruants and the Sacred in Judaism and Christianity - Purity, Piety, and Polemic: Medieval Rabbinic Denunciations of 'Incorrect' Purification Practices - A Brief History of Jewish Circumcision BloodJudaism and ChristianityJudaism without Circumcision and 'Judaism' without 'Circumcision' in Ignatius - Between Judaism and Christianity: the Semi-Circumcision of Christians According to Bernard Gui, his Sources, and R. Eliezer of Metz - Does Rashi's Torah Commentary Respond to Christianity? A Comparison of Rashi with Rashbam and Bekhor Shor - A Virgin Defiled: Some Rabbinic and Christian Views on the Origins of Heresy