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  • From: "Mark D. Nanos" <nanosmd AT comcast.net>
  • To: Corpus-paul <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Why were Gentiles attracted to Christianity?
  • Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 09:08:53 -0500


on 6/7/02 8:39 AM, David C. Hindley at dhindley AT compuserve.com wrote:

> Still, just to probe Horsley's rural village context a
> little more, is there evidence for rural Jewish communities
> outside of "Palestine" that you are aware of? Under what
> kind of contexts were they present?

David,
Perhaps a post to Ioudaios would bring some evidence to light. It might be
useful to define and limit the information. E.g., the precise guidelines for
quantifying a location as rural village, and separating the regions, say
Syria, Anatolia, Egypt, etc. There are sufficient data available for many
Jewish communities in many areas, but I do not know off-hand what qualifies,
either as a rural village, or if the smaller cites from which evidence
exists meets those parameters. If you scan the works of Feldman, Jew and
Gentile in the Ancient World; Levine, The Ancient Synagogue; and other such
works, you will likely find evidence that matches, or at least the trail for
primary data. I think the Oxyrhynchos papyri alone will reveal many cases
that might fit the parameters, mostly for Egypt, in the Roman period; e.g.,
a list of locations in the Ptolemaic period is available in Corpus Papyrorum
Judaicarum (CPJ; Tcherikover and Fuks), vol. 3, Appendix 3 (discussion in
Kasher, The Jews in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt). Trebilco and Mitchell
should cite material for Anatolia.





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