The Symposium of Philo’s Therapeutae: Displaying Jewish Identity in an Increasingly Roman World

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  • Maren R. Niehoff

Abstract

Philo's description of the sober Jewish symposium in De vita contempletiva resembles the attitude of the contemporary elite in Rome and caps a growing disparagement of the traditional Greek symposium that can be traced through his earlier writings.

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2010-03-29

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