Jews, Antiquity, and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination (The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies)

Scholars mostly from US universities explore how assumptions over a century old continue to inform studies of antiquity, particularly the peculiar place of Jews, Judaism, and Jewish texts in the 19th-century construction of antiquity. The eight essays are from a conference, the location and date of which have not come down to the present. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)