Introduction Who Are the Jews? Expulsion from Egypt The Jewish God Abstinence from Pork Sabbath Circumcision Proselytism Two Key Historical Incidents Elephantine Alexandria Centers of Conflict Egypt Syria-Palestine Rome Anti-Semitism Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
Peter Schäfer is University Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Institut für Judaistik, Freie Universität Berlin.
[Judeophobia] casts new light on, and suggests a new understanding
of, an area that has been a controversial field ever since Theodor
Mommsen, in…his Römische Geshichte in 1884, made the ‘rather casual
statement’ that ‘hatred of the Jews and Jew-baiting are as old as
the Diaspora itself’… [It is a] learned and absorbing book.
*New Republic*
A well-informed and intelligently argued book. It is also admirably
readable.
*New York Review of Books*
An elegant, persuasive, and comprehensive book… It is no
exaggeration to say that Judeophobia changes the way we think about
Judaism in the Greco-Roman world.
*History [UK]*
In Judeophobia Peter Schäfer makes a major contribution to the
social history of Judaism in antiquity… The book is written in a
clear style appropriate for non-specialists. Non-English language
terms are transliterated and, in most cases, translated the first
time they are used. Schäfer’s thesis is that the origins of
anti-Semitism can be traced to three successive centers of
conflict: Egypt, Syria-Palestine, and Rome. Schäfer’s attempt to
disentangle the unique aspects of the growth of anti-Semitism in
each of these three centers is one of the most important
contributions of the book… This book deserves to be read by anyone
interested in the origins of anti-Semitism. Its main arguments will
undoubtedly become a source for discussion and debate in future
research. Schäfer deserves our thanks, both for his courage in
pursuing a difficult topic with such frankness and for the numerous
insights that he has contributed to research on this topic.
*Journal for the Study of Judaism*
Schäfer demonstrates his mastery of the sources…[and] isolate[s]
with great clarity key elements in the history of antisemitism.
*Patterns of Prejudice*
Schäfer has given us a masterly account of the early history of
antisemitism.
*Shofar*
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