1. Jews in the Hellenistic World

1.1. Alexander and the East

1.1.1. Greek coins

1.1.2. 1 Maccabees 1:1-9

1.1.3. The Ideal City. Pausanias, Descr. of Greece 1.2.1

1.1.4. What makes a City. Pausanias, Descr. of Greece 10.4.1

1.2. Greco-Roman Attitudes to Jews

1.2.1. Tacitus on Judaism. Tacitus, Histories 5.4–5

1.2.2. Strabo, Geography, Book 16.ii.34-38, 40, 46

1.2.3. Seneca on the Jews.

1.2.4. Juvenal on Jewish Observance. Juvenal, Satires 14.96–106

1.2.5. The Blood Libel. Josephus, Against Apion 2.79–111

1.3. Ptolemaic Rule over Palestine: 323-201 BCE

1.3.1. Alexander and the Jews. Josephus, Antiquities 11.332, 336–8

1.3.2. The Diadochoi. Josephus, Antiquities 12.1–3

1.3.3. Ptolemy I captures Jerusalem. Josephus, Antiquities 12.3–5

1.3.4. Ptolemy I and Alexandrian Jews. Josephus, Antiquities 12.7–9

1.3.5. Rights of Jews. Josephus, Antiquities 12:119

1.3.6. Ptolemy II and Jews in Alexandria. Josephus, Antiquities 12.11

1.3.7. Ptolemy IV Philopater. 3 Maccabees 2:25-30

1.4. Council of Elders (Gerousia)

1.4.1. The Jewish Council. Josephus, Antiquities 12.138–9

1.5. Temple and Priesthood

1.5.1. No Image in Temple. Josephus, Against Apion 1.195–99

1.5.2. The Temple Service. Letter of Aristeas 92–99

1.5.3. Tithes and Offerings. Tobit 1:6–8

1.5.4. The High Priest. Ben Sira 50

1.5.5. High Priesthood. Josephus, Antiquities 12.157–9

1.6. Tax Farming

1.6.1. The Tobiads. Josephus, Antiquities 12.157–236

1.6.2. Tobias’s Gift of Slaves. Zenon papyrus

1.7. Seleucid Rule over Palestine: 201-152 BCE

1.7.1. Coins of the Seleucids:

1.7.2. Antiochus III. Josephus, Antiquities 12:129–130

1.7.3. Edict of Antiochus III. Josephus, Antiquities 12:138–146

1.7.4. Hellenization of Jerusalem. 2 Maccabees 3-6

1.7.5. Antiochus IV Epiphanes. 1 Maccabees 1:1-64

1.7.6. Jerusalem as Polis (pictures)