This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature and history of early J

This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature and history of early J

"This volume assembles twenty-three essays by Erich S. Gruen, who has written extensively on the literature and history of early Judaism and the experience of t

'I am a Christian' is the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts and, no doubt, of many others; but what did this confession mean, and how was early

This is a study of the notion of Jewishness from c. 200 BCE to c. 200 CE. Reasonable and well-informed people disputed whether a given person was Jewish or not;