Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World

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Leading scholars in early Christianity, Judaic studies, classics, history and archaeology explore the ways that memories were retrieved, reconstituted and put to use by Jews, Christians and their pagan neighbours in late antiquity, from the third century B.C.E. to the seventh century C.E. Cover Preface Table of Contents GREGG GARDNER and KEVIN L. OSTERLOH The Significance of Antiquity in Antiquity: An Introduction I. The Nature of This Volume II. Three Classicizing Ages: Contextualizing the Contributions III. Conclusion Part One Jewish and Pagan Antiquities from the Late Hellenistic to the Early Imperial Period HOLGER M. ZELLENTIN The End of Jewish Egypt: Artapanus and the Second Exodus Artapanus’s Sources 1. The Bible 2. Diodorus 3. Table The Bible in Artapanus Diodorus Siculus and Artapanus The Historical Context Chenephres and Ptolemy VIII The Decree of Amnesty of 118 Land Reforms Soldiers Religion Artapanus and the Oniads Reading Artapanus Conclusion HARRIET I. FLOWER Remembering and Forgetting Temple Destruction: The Destruction of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus in 83 BC STEVE MASON The Greeks and the Distant Past in Josephus’s Judaean War I. Josephus’s World of Discourse in the War II. Josephus and Greek History in the War III. Freedom and Autonomy, Foreign and Native Government IV. The Statesman as Orator: A Bowdlerized National History Conclusions DORON MENDELS How Was Antiquity Treated in Societies with a Hellenistic Heritage? And Why Did the Rabbis Avoid Writing History? Theme I: The relationship of societies, groups, and individuals to their past: A schematic approach. Theme II: What were the modes for using the past in Antiquity? Theme III: When and by whom? Theme IV: The agents are not mere transmitters of the past, but rather significantly impact how antiquity is used in Antiquity. Part Two Jewish, Pagan, and Christian Antiquities in the Greco-Roman World PETER SCHÄFER Rabbis and Priests, or: How to Do Away with the Glorious Past of the Sons of Aaron ANNETTE YOSHIKO REED “Jewish Christianity” as Counter-history?: The Apostolic Past in Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History and the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies The Pseudo-Clementines and the History of the Apostolic Age The Homilies and Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History Apostolic Succession and the Transmission of Truth Primordial Truth, Jewish Succession, and Apostolic Teaching The Apostolic Mission Peter, Paul, and Clement of Rome “Orthodoxy” and “Heresy” “Jewish Christianity” LEE I. LEVINE Jewish Collective Memory in Late Antiquity: Issues in the Interpretation of Jewish Art The Use of the Past 1. Jewish Symbols 2. Biblical Figures 3. Biblical Scenes 4. From Depiction to Interpretation Polemics and Art The Elusive Quest for Interpretation Photo Credits ELIZABETH KESSLER-DIMIN Tradition and Transmission: Hermes Kourotrophos in Nea Paphos, Cyprus Introduction The House of Aion The Epiphany Panel The Other Panels Monotheizing Dionysos Pagan Past Christian Future Conclusion Photo Credits Part Three Antiquities of Late Antiquity and Today MOULIE VIDAS The Bavli’s Discussion of Genealogy in Qiddushin IV I. The Situation of Genealogical Knowledge 1. The purification of Israel (70b–71a) 2. Rav Yehuda’s trial (70a–b) II. The Beginning of Genealogy 1. The Purification of Babylonia 2. The Land and the People RA‘ANAN S. BOUSTAN The Spoils of the Jerusalem Temple at Rome and Constantinople: Jewish Counter-Geography in a Christianizing Empire I. Introduction II. The Limits of Positivism: The Temple Vessels at Rome, 71–192 C.E. III. The Fate of the Temple Implements in Rabbinic Literature, c. 200–450 C.E. IV. The Inventio(n) of the Temple Vessels in the Byzantine Period V. Jewish Relics at “Rome” in the Jewish Messianic Discourse of the Byzantine Period Conclusion YANNIS PAPADOYANNAKIS A Debate about the Rebuilding of the Temple in Sixth-Century Byzantium The Erotapokriseis of pseudo-Kaisarios Julian Conclusion G.W. BOWERSOCK Helena’s Bridle and the Chariot of Ethiopia ADAM H. BECKER The Ancient Near East in the Late Antique Near East: Syriac Christian Appropriation of the Biblical East List of Contributors Index of Sources Index of Names and Subjects