The book investigates how the emperor Julian (361–63 c.e.) uses Jews as ethnic Judeans in his hellenizing project to define Hellenic identity and to disqualify and delegitimize Christian ethnic claims. It concludes by summing up the main takeaways of the book for Jewish, Christian, and Roman historians of late antiquity.
Keywords: late antiquity, Jews, Christians, hellenizing, Julian, Roman empire, theurgy, ethnos
Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520298729 |
Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2019 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520298729.001.0001 |