Against the Greeks

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Against the Greeks is a polemical work by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus defending Judaism and Jewish history against the criticisms and prejudices of Greco-Roman writers.

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Against the Greeks canonical 1
Against the Greeks (Pros Hellenas) 1

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instanceOf lost work
polemical work
author Flavius Josephus
culturalContext Ancient Mediterranean world
surface form: Greco-Roman world
describedBySource Eusebius of Caesarea
extantStatus known only by references in later authors
genre apologetic literature
religious polemic
hasAuthor Flavius Josephus
surface form: Yosef ben Matityahu (Flavius Josephus)
hasAuthorOccupation Jewish priest
historian
historicalPeriod Second Temple Judaism
surface form: Second Temple period
intendedAudience Greco-Roman readers
Jewish readers
language Greek
literaryForm prose treatise
mainSubject Greco-Roman criticism of Judaism
Jewish history
Judaism
mentionedIn Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History
surface form: Ecclesiastical History by Eusebius
placeOfOrigin Roman Empire
purpose defend Judaism against Greek and Roman accusations
refute prejudices of Greco-Roman writers
relatedWork Against Apion
Antiquities of the Jews
surface form: Jewish Antiquities
religiousPerspective Jewish apologetic
religiousTradition Judaism
timeOfComposition 1st century CE
titleVariant Against the Greeks self-linksurface differs
surface form: Against the Greeks (Pros Hellenas)
workStatus lost

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Against Apion alternativeTitle Against the Greeks
Against the Greeks titleVariant Against the Greeks self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Against the Greeks (Pros Hellenas)