Jew-Hatred in Antiquity: Cultural, Legal, and Physical Forms of Antisemitic Persecution

Abstract

Jew-hatred in antiquity and late antiquity has been subject to several studies with varying degrees of scholarly quality and widely differing appreciations of the extent and character of the rejection and persecution of Jews in these periods.1 Furthermore, Jew-hatred in antiquity and late antiquity has been surveyed in albeit mostly brief chapters in various overall histories of antisemitism.2 Although ancient and late ancient Jew-hatred is not in the center of most of antisemitism studies,3 there is ample scholarly literature engaging with the phe-