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September 17, 2018

How Edward Said’s Ideas Perverted the Study of Ancient Jewry

Jews were neither xenophobes nor perpetual victims.

Having started his scholarly career as a student of ancient Roman politics, Erich Gruen—now a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley—later shifted his focus to the study of Jews in the Hellenistic and ancient Roman eras. In a retrospective on his scholarship of ancient Jewry, Gruen sums up some of his key conclusions:

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September 17, 2018

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