Conversion to Judaism and Hostility toward Jews in the Roman Empire: The Complementary Perspectives of Philo and Tacitus

Hellenistic texts on Jews hardly ever refer to people converting to Judaism. Roman authors’ criticism and condemnation of people who had converted to Judaism thus appears as a new feature of anti-Jewish discourse. The relative prominence of references to Judaizers and converts in Roman literary text...

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Main Author: Berthelot, Katell (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2024
In: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2024, Volume: 55, Issue: 3, Pages: 357-385
Further subjects:B conversion to Judaism
B Anti-judaism
B Roman Empire
B Tacitus
B Proselytes
B Philo
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