The Jewish Dialogue With Greece and Rome

Studies in Cultural and Social Interaction

This work includes essays on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world.They derive from the author's long-standing interests in the analysis of texts as documents of cultural and religious interaction.

... Judaism had a high religious profile,70 and we need not be surprised to see
this echoed in social contacts and mutual esteem. It is striking that the two
archisynagogoi and the archon who are together honoured in the renovation
inscription are presented with gilded shields, which is a form of recognition quite
uncharacteristic of Jewish epigraphy. There is no real problem in conceiving of a
non-Jew being given archisynagogal standing. Momigliano's depiction of
Alexander Seve- rus ...