The Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch by Ari Finkelstein (review)

• Autores: Michael Hanagan
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 4, 2019, págs. 669-671
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On page 2, Finkelstein asks "[W]hy, prior to February 363 … had [Julian] never used the term Ioudaios in any of his writings, and then suddenly, in the space of three months, Jews appear in five works and are present in at least an additional two letters no longer extent?" The political historian may well answer that prior to 363 the Jews were not relevant to Julian until he realized that he could pit their religion against Christianity. Overall the book makes a clear and largely convincing argument which scholars who work on Julianic thought and the role of the Jews and Judaism in the later Roman Empire will need to take into account. Some minor inconsistencies, such as errant (74) or missing full stops (53) and accentuation (e.g., bouleute\rion, 30; cf. 34) do little to detract from the overall reading experiences, but might have been corrected with careful final proofing.