Erich Gruen: “Displaced in Diaspora? Jewish Communities in the Greco-Roman World”

Erich Gruen is Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. His research deals with Hellenistic history, Roman history, and Jews in the Greco-Roman world. He is the author of several books including The Last Generation of the Roman Republic (University of California Press 1974), The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome (University of California Press 1984), Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition (University of California Press 1998), Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans (Harvard University Press 2004), Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (Princeton University Press 2011), Constructs of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism (De Gruyter 2016), and Ethnicity in the Ancient World – Did It Matter? (De Gruyer 2020). This lecture is sponsored by a Sherl K. Coleman-Margaret E. Guitteau Professorship in the Humanities from the Oregon Humanities Center and is part of the Spring 2022 Ancient Jewish Art and Architecture Lecture Series.