Bookreviews

Among the just recently posted book reviews on SBL's www.bookreviews.org there are, as almost always, some that should be pointed out as especially related to the field of study of this blog.Erich S.Gruen,
Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004
pp. ix +386 $19.95. Paperback
Some of the articles in this volume deal directly with Alexandria and/or the works of Philo.

Michael Tilly,
Jerusalem-- Nabel der Welt: Überlieferung und Funktionen von Heiligtumstraditionen im antiken Judentum
Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2002 pp. ix + 307. EUR 35.00. Paperback.

Athalya Brenner, editor, Are We Amused?: Humor about Women in the Biblical Worlds
London: T&T Clark, 2003. pp. viii + 158. $39.95. Paperback