| Pseudo-Hecataeus on the Jews |
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction |
 | I Hecataeus, His Work, and the Jewish Excursus |
| • | 1. The Man, the Ethnographic Genre, and Hecataeus's Egyptian Ethnography |
| • | 2. The Jewish Excursus |
| II The Passages in Against Apion: Text and Translation |
| III The Question of Authenticity |
| • | 1. Mosollamus the Jew and Bird Omens |
| • | 2. Ptolemy I and the Jews |
| • | 3. Hezekiah the High Priest |
| • | 4. Religious Persecutions and Martyrdom |
| • | 5. The Destruction of Pagan Temples and Altars |
| • | 6. Jewish Emigration to Phoenicia |
| • | 7. "Many Fortresses of the Jews" |
| • | 8. The Geography of Judea and Jerusalem |
| • | 9. The Annexation of Samaria to Judea by Alexander |
| IV Date of Composition |
| • | 1. The Anachronistic References |
| • | 2. Terminus Ante Quem |
| • | 3. Pseudo-Aristeas and Pseudo-Hecataeus |
| V The Author: Origin, Education, and Religious Group |
| • | 1. Descent and Provenance |
| • | 2. Greek Education |
| • | 3. Jewish Education |
| • | 4. The Religious Division of Egyptian Jewry and the Author's Affiliation |
| VI The Framework, Literary Genre, Structure, and Contents |
| • | 1. Monograph or Excursus? |
| • | 2. The Title of the Treatise and the Literary Genre |
| • | 3. The Structure of an Ethnographical Work |
| • | 4. The Structure of on the Jews: the Place and Role of the Hezekiah Story |
| VII The Purpose of the Book |
| Conclusion |
| Appendix A The Hezekiah Coins |
| • | 1. The Dispute Over the Dating of the Second Group |
| • | 2. Artistic Standard, Style, Types, Motifs, and Sequence |
| • | 3. The Duration of the Hezekiah Coins |
| • | 4. The Dating of the Ptolemaic Yehud Coins |
| • | Summary |
| Appendix B The Dating of Pseudo-Aristeas |
| • | 1. The Citadel and the Temple |
| • | 2. Idumea and Samaria |
| • | 3. Further Considerations |
| Extended Notes |
| • | 1. Hecataeus As a Source of Diodorus's Egyptian Ethnography (p. 15 n. 23) |
| • | 2. Stages in the Jewish Occupation of the Coastal Plain at the Time of John Hyrcanus (p. 127 n. 13) |
| • | 3. The Date of the Destruction of Gaza By Alexander Jannaeus (p. 127 n. 15 and p. 285 n. 47) |
| • | 4. The Hasmonean Rulers and the Hellenistic Cities (p. 128 n. 21) |
| • | 5. The Beginning of the First Section in Hecataeus's Egyptian Ethnography (p. 195 n. 51) |
| • | 6. The Position of the High Priest in the Period of the Successors (p. 256 n. 8) |
| • | 7. The Sequence and Dating of the Berenice Coins From Cos (p. 269 n. 56) |
| • | 8. The Rule and Personality of Ptolemy Physcon (p. 285 n. 48) |
| • | 9. The Persecution of the Jews by Ptolemy Physcon (p. 237 n. 16 and p. 285 n. 50) |
| Chronological Table Events in Judea and Egypt mentioned in the discussion |
| Plates |
| • | Plate I: The Hezekiah Coins, First Group |
| • | Plate II: The Hezekiah Coins, Second Group |
| • | Plate III: The Ptolemaic Yehud Coins |
| • | Plate IV: Berenice on the Ptolemaic Yehud Coins |
| Abbreviations |
| References |
| Index of Names and Subjects |
| • | A |
| • | B |
| • | C |
| • | D |
| • | E |
| • | F |
| • | G |
| • | H |
| • | I |
| • | J |
| • | K |
| • | L |
| • | M |
| • | N |
| • | O |
| • | P |
| • | Q |
| • | R |
| • | S |
| • | T |
| • | V |
| • | W |
| • | X |
| • | Y |
| • | Z |
| Index of Greek Terms in Transcription |
| • | A |
| • | B |
| • | C |
| • | D |
| • | E |
| • | G |
| • | H |
| • | K |
| • | L |
| • | M |
| • | N |
| • | O |
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| • | T |
| • | X |
| Index Locorum |
| • | Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman Authors |
| • | Jewish Hellenistic Authors |
| • | Early Christian and Byzantine Authors |
| • | Old Testament |
| • | Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and Dead Sea Scrolls |
| • | New Testament |
| • | Rabbinic Literature |
| • | Inscriptions and Papyri |
| • | Coins |
