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Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true, asks Louis Feldman, how did Jews succeed in winning so many adherents, whether full-fledged proselytes or "sympathizers" who adopted one or more Jewish practices? Systematically evaluating attitudes toward Jews from the time of Alexander the Great to the fifth century A.D., Feldman finds that Judaism elicited strongly positive and not merely unfavorable responses from the non-Jewish population. Jews were a vigorous presence in the ancient world, and Judaism was strengthened substantially by the development of the Talmud. Although Jews in the Diaspora were deeply Hellenized, those who remained in Israel were able to resist the cultural inroads of Hellenism and even to initiate intellectual counterattacks. Feldman draws on a wide variety of material, from Philo, Josephus, and other Graeco-Jewish writers through the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha, the Church Councils, Church Fathers, and imperial decrees to Talmudic and Midrashic writings and inscriptions and papyri. What emerges is a rich description of a long era to which conceptions of Jewish history as uninterrupted weakness and suffering do not apply.

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This remarkable portrayal of Jerusalem has become a favorite of many readers interested in this city's dramatic past. Through a collection of firsthand accounts, we see Jerusalem as it appeared through the centuries to a fascinating variety of observers--Jews, Christians, Muslims, and secularists, from pilgrim to warrior to merchant. F. E. Peters skillfully unites these moving eyewitness statements in an immensely readable narrative commentary.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Jerusalem --- History --- Sources. --- 1 Maccabees. --- 2 Maccabees. --- Abbasid Caliphate. --- Aelia Capitolina. --- Against Apion. --- Al-Aqsa Mosque. --- Al-Nasir. --- Araunah. --- Arius. --- Ark of the Covenant. --- Armenians. --- Ayyubid dynasty. --- Basilica. --- Beautiful Gate. --- Bedouin. --- Book of Judges. --- Book of Lamentations. --- Books of Kings. --- Caliphate. --- Church of the Holy Sepulchre. --- City of David. --- Clergy. --- Cloister. --- David Reubeni. --- Dome of the Ascension. --- Dome of the Rock. --- Elijah. --- Elisha. --- Ezekiel. --- Fatimid Caliphate. --- Franciscans. --- Friar. --- Gedaliah. --- Geonim. --- God Knows (novel). --- God. --- Good Friday. --- Hagarenes. --- Hegesippus (chronicler). --- Herod the Great. --- Herodian. --- Hittites. --- Holy of Holies. --- Infidel. --- Islam. --- Israelites. --- Jehoshaphat. --- Jerusalem. --- Jews. --- Josiah. --- Judea (Roman province). --- Juvenal. --- Kaaba. --- Knights Hospitaller. --- Latins (Italic tribe). --- Letter of Aristeas. --- Mary, mother of Jesus. --- Melkite. --- Mihrab. --- Morisco. --- Mosque. --- Mount of Olives. --- Muezzin. --- Mujir al-Din. --- Muslim. --- Muslims (nationality). --- Nehemiah. --- Omar Khayyam. --- Passover sacrifice. --- People of the Book. --- Prester John. --- Qadi. --- Quran. --- Religion. --- Rite. --- Sadducees. --- Safed. --- Samaritans. --- Sanskrit. --- Saracen. --- Second Temple. --- Sharia. --- Shrine. --- Sin offering. --- Solomon's Porch. --- Solomon's Temple. --- Stations of the Cross. --- Sultan of Egypt. --- Temple Mount. --- The True Word. --- Tisha B'Av. --- Trophimus. --- Wall and tower. --- Waqf. --- Warfare. --- Western Wall. --- William of Tyre. --- Yeshiva. --- Zamzam Well. --- Zedekiah.