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This volume describes the attitudes towards Gentiles in both ancient Judaism and the early Christian tradition. The Jewish relationship with and views about the Gentiles played an important part in Jewish self-definition, especially in the Diaspora where Jews formed the minority among larger Gentile populations. Jewish attitudes can be found in the writings of prominent Jewish authors (Josephus...

The tradition in Acts is confirmed by the evidence of Josephus, who states that in Antioch many Gentiles were attracted to Jewish ceremonies and were incorporated with the Jews in some measure (B.J. 7.45). In other references he singles out large groups of female sympathisers. At the beginning of the Jewish war many of the women in Damascus became attracted to Jewish ways (B.J. 2.560), while in Charax-Spasini large numbers of women became worshippers of God (A.J. 20.34). On an individual level, Poppaea
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