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Back cover copy "There are very few books that combine grand ambition with careful and skeptical scholarship as successfully as this wonderfully provocative book. Seth Schwartz takes on the very biggest question of Second Temple Judaism: And he does so with sharp sophistication and profound learning.
This book offers a new perspective on this formative period in Jewish history and will be much discussed. Swartz, Ohio State University "An original, interesting, and important book. Schwartz advances his arguments with much learning and methodological sophistication. I have no doubt whatever that this book will attract much notice.
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Table of contents Acknowledgments ix Chapter one: Reciprocity and Solidarity 1 Chapter two: The Problem with Mediterraneanism 21 Chapter three: A God of Reciprocity: Honor, Memory, Benefaction 80 Chapter five: Roman Values and the Palestinian Rabbis Chapter six: Were the Ancient Jews a Mediterranean Society?
Review quote "Schwartz has a cogent voice worthy of profound attention in any dialogue concerning Jewish relations with the Hellenistic-Roman world Schwartz offers a close, very revealing analysis of the Hellenistic Jewish author Jesus Ben Sira and a refreshingly unorthodox discussion of that literary trickster Josephus.
His analysis of Talmudic texts is persuasive. The attempt to answer two big questions at once is laudable, the analysis is carefully done, and the conclusions are complex. We need more studies operating on such a high level of abstraction. For this, his reader is in his debt. Baumgarten, Scripta Classica Israelica "As is characteristic of Schwartz's scholarship, this book will prompt scholarly debate. I have learned much from it at the same time that it has raised questions with which I will wrestle long after having written this review.
Wright, Journal of Jewish Studies "[T]his is a book from which a reader could learn a great deal about Ben Sira, Josephus, the rabbis, and methods for approaching the study of Jews in the Roman world.
Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society?: Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism
Due to the technical nature of some of its arguments, it is most likely to be of use to PhD students and scholars, though its prose is readable enough that it might be used with master's-level students and perhaps even advanced undergraduates. Stewart, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "Schwartz has presented a masterful study on the integration of the Jews in Greek and Roman culture. Although it is aimed primarily at specialists, advanced students will also learn from his well articulated methodology and his careful reading of select texts Simkins, Biblical Theology Bulletin "Schwartz's book is essential reading for specialists in Ben Sira, Josephus and rabbinic values, and useful reading for everyone interested in social-scientific approaches to antiquity.
In a country like Finland, where the studies of Judaism and of classical antiquity have been largely separated, approaches like Schwartz's are much needed.
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