A unique form of hate or another form of xenophobia?

Prof. Paula Fredriksen, Prof. John G. Gager

Should anti-Jewish expressions in the Greco-Roman world be viewed as a unique form of hatred or should they be perceived as one of the various forms of xenophobia that existed during this period?

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References

• Gager, John G., The Origins of Anti-Semitism: Attitudes toward Judaism in Pagan and Christian Antiquity (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983).‏

• Gruen, Erich S., Diaspora: Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans (Cambridge M.A.: Harvard University Press, 2002).

• Isaac, Benjamin, Empire and Ideology in the Graeco-Roman World: Selected Papers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 285 – 305.

• Schäfer, Peter, Judeophobia: Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World (Cambridge M.A.: Harvard University Press, 1998).

• Schwartz, Daniel R., “Antisemitism and Other-isms in the Greco-Roman World,” in Robert Wistrich, ed., Demonizing the Other: Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia (Amsterdam: Published for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, by Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999), pp. 73 – 87.