MAX RADIN NEW YORK CITY, October, 1915 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS PAGE Introduction 13 I. Greek Religious Concepts 21 II. Roman Religious Concepts 40 III. Greek and Roman Concepts of Race 48 IV. Sketch of Jewish History between 56 Nebuchadnezzar and Constantine V. Internal Development of the Jews 66 during the Persian Period VI. The First Contact between Greek and 76 Jew VII. Egypt 90 VIII. Jews in Ptolemaic Egypt 104 IX. The Struggle against Greek Culture 118 in Palestine X. Antiochus the Manifest God 135 XI. The Jewish Propaganda 148 XII. The Opposition 163 XIII. The Opposition in Its Social Aspect 176 XIV. The Philosophic Opposition 191 XV. The Romans 210 XVI. Jews in Rome during the Early 236 Empire XVII. The Jews of the Empire till the 257 Revolt XVIII. The Revolt of 68 C.E. 287 XIX. The Development of the Roman Jewish 304 Community XX. The Final Revolts of the Jews 328 XXI. The Legal Position of the Jews in 350 the Later Empire Summary 368 Notes 373 Bibliography 415 Index 417 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ILLUSTRATIONS ARCH OF TITUS, ROME Frontispiece RUINS OF THE AMPHITHEATER AT GERASA 62 (JERASH), GILEAD, PALESTINE ANTIOCHUS (IV) EPIPHANES, AFTER A COIN 136 (from a Drawing by Ralph Iligan) GREEK INSCRIPTION, FOUND ON SITE OF 186 TEMPLE AREA, FORBIDDING GENTILES TO PASS BEYOND THE INNER TEMPLE WALLS AT JERUSALEM RUINS OF AN ANCIENT SYNAGOGUE AT MEROM, 216 GALILEE, PALESTINE (Roman Period)