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Finkelstein’s focus is on the nine months Julian spent in the eastern metropolis of Antioch, from July to March
“Specter” is an ominous word, calling to mind James Bond villains and things that go bump in the night
Finkelstein aims to make two inter-related points. He wants to show the prominent role played by Jews in this ancient city, where they had lived since its founding more than seven centuries earlier
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Finkelstein’s focus is on the nine months Julian spent in the eastern metropolis of Antioch, from July 362 to March 363. Ari Finkelstein The Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018), hardcover, xvii + 251 pp. It is a bit of a surprise to see it on a book about the fourth-century Roman emperor Julian’s dealings with the Jews, which were fairly positive.
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