{"product_id":"the-jews-of-egypt-9780691015750","title":"The Jews of Egypt","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents the story of the adventures and misadventures of the people of Israel in the land of Egypt the years shrouded in the mists of biblical history under the Pharaohs; the strange intermezzo of the Jewish mercenary detachment on the island of Elephantine on the upper Nile. This title probes a turning point in Western civilization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Urbane, intelligent, and well-researched ... more than ample for a well-rounded view of Jewish history in ancient Egypt.\"--Library Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword   Shaye J. D. Cohen   Introduction   Note to the Princeton Paperback Edition   THE DAWN: Pharaohs and Great Kings   1 Biblical Egypt   Joseph and His Brothers   Moses and the Pharaoh   The Desert Road   2 The Stronghold of Elephantine   A Judean Colony in Egypt   Mibtahiah and Her Husbands: A Family of   Note during the Reign of Artaxerxes   \"God of Heaven\" and God of the Floods   THE ZENITH: Ptolemaic Egypt   3 Alexandrian Judaism and Its Problems   Alexander and the Jews   Can One Be Both Jewish and Greek?   A Love Story   4 A New Diaspora   Among the \"Hellenes\"   Soldiers of the Ptolemies   \"God the Most High\" and \"Splendor of Israel\"   5 A Law for the Jews of Egypt   The Greek Torah and the Demotic Case Book   The Law of Moses and the Justice of the King   \"The Law of the Land Is Law\"   6 A Jewish Temple in Ptolemaic Egypt   The Echoes of the Maccabean Crisis   \"An Altar of the Lord in the Midst of the   Land of Egypt\"   Images of the \"Land of Onias\"   7 At the Wellsprings of Pagan Anti-Semitism   Modern Fantasies and Ancient Myths   The Miracle at the Hippodrome   \"They Loathe the Jews\"   THE TWILIGHT: Egypt in the Roman Empire   8 The \"Jewish Question\" in Alexandria   The Decline   The Vile Deeds of Flaccus the Prefect   Jews, Alexandrians, and Claudius the Emperor   9 The Time of Misfortunes   The Service Record of a Brilliant Alexandrian   A Miracle in Rome   \"A Spirit of Rebellion\"   10 The Remembrance   Who Destroyed the Great Synagogue of Alexandria?   \"Jewish Tax,\" \"Jewish Accounts\": The Tale   of the Imperial Tax Records   A Day of Rejoicings in Oxyrhynchos   Epilogue   Chronological Table   Calendar   Monetary Units and Units of Measure   Glossary   Bibliography   Maps   Index of Persons and Places   Index of Sources","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359099289943,"sku":"9780691015750","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691015750.jpg?v=1754123582","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-jews-of-egypt-9780691015750","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}