The Classical Review

Review Article

Hellenistic Jews

Martin Goodmana1

a1 Wolfson College, Oxford

B. Bar-Kochva: Pseudo-Hecataeus On the Jews: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora (Hellenistic Culture and Society). Pp. xii + 396, 5 maps, 4 pls. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1996. Cased, $55/£45. ISBN: 0-520-20059-4.