A Jew Among Romans

by Frederic Raphael

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  INDEX

  Abd al-Rahman, Caliph

  Abderrahman I, Emir

  Abderrahman III, Emir

  Abelard, Peter

  Actium, Battle of

  Acts of the Apostles, 3.1, 13.1, nts.1

  Admirable Woman, An (Cohen), 18.1

  Adorno, Theodor, 17.1n, 18.1

  “Advice to the Politician” (Plutarch)

  Aeneid (Virgil), itr.1, 18.1n

  Aeschylus, prl.1, 5.1n, 14.1n, 15.1n, 15.2n

  affaire Audin, L’ (Vidal-Naquet), prl.1

  Africa, itr.1, itr.2, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 14.1n

  Against Apion (Josephus), itr.1, 14.1

  Agrippa, Justus (son of TFJ), 12.1, 16.1

  Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius

  Agrippa, Simonides (son of TFJ), 12.1, 16.1

  Agrippa I, King of Judaea, 1.1, 2.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3

  Agrippa II, King of Judaea, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3n, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3

  Berenice and, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1, 6.2

  Agrippina, 5.1, 5.2

  Akhenaten, n

  À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust), 12.1n, 17.1n

  Alcibiades

  Aleichem, Sholem

  Alexander, Tiberius Julius, 5.1, 10.1, 11.1

  Alexander (Herod’s son), n

  Alexander the Great, itr.1n, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 6.1n, 8.1n, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3n, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2n, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 18.1

  Alexandra, Queen

  Alexandre à Zénobie, D’ (M. Sartre), itr.1n, 2.1n, 8.1n, 19.1n

  Alexandria, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2n, 6.1n, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1

  Jewish community in, prl.1, 5.1, 11.1, 17.1

  libraries of, 14.1n, 14.2, 17.1

  Mouseion in

  Alfonsi, Petrus, 17.1, 17.2

  al-Husseini, Amin, n

  Aliturus, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

  Almohads, 17.1, 17.2

  Amalkites

  American Prometheus (Bird and Sherwin), 18.1n

  Amos (prophet)

  Amsterdam, 6.1n, 8.1n, 15.1, 17.1

  Ananias (High Priest), 2.1, 4.1n, 4.2, 5.1n, 5.2, 6.1

  Ananus (High Priest), 2.1, 7.1, 10.1

  Ananus ben Bagadatus

  Ancient Greece (Cartledge), 15.1n

  Andalucia, 17.1, 17.2

  Andros

  Anglican Church, 17.1, 18.1n

  Anilaeus, King

  Annaeus

  Annaeus, L. Julnius Gallio, n

  Anschluss

  anti-Catholicism, n

  Antigonus, King of the Maccabees, 1.1, 1.2

  Antioch, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 12.1, 14.1

  Antiochus IV Epiphanes, Seleucid King, 14.1, 15.1

  Antipas (Herod’s son)

  Antipater (Herod’s father), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

  Antipater (Herod’s son)

  anti-Semitism, prl.1, prl.2, itr.1n, itr.2, 1.1n, 9.1n, 9.2, 11.1, 11.2n, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2n, 13.3, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2

  Christian, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1n, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3n, 13.4, 15.1n, 16.1, 16.2n, 16.3, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3n, 19.1

  Islamic, 14.1, 17.1

  Nazi, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3n, 18.4, 18.5, 19.1

  anti-Zionism, 18.1, 19.1

  Antonia (daughter of Mark Antony), 5.1, 5.2

  Apion, itr.1, 14.1, 19.1

  Apollonius of Tyana

  Applebaum Shimon

  Arab-Jewish conflict, 11.1n, 14.1n, 18.1

  Arafat, Yasser

  Aramaic language, itr.1n, itr.2, itr.3, 5.1, 10.1, 13.1

  archaism, 13.1n, 18.1

  Archelaus (Ethnarch of Judaea)

  Archelaus (Herod’s son)

  Archilochos, n

  Ardalas

  Arendt, Hannah, itr.1n, 6.1n, 8.1n, 10.1n, 18.1n, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 18.5, 18.6, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3n, 19.4, 19.5

  Aristobulus (Herod’s son), n

  Aristobulus, King of the Maccabees, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3n, 1.4

  Aristophanes, 15.1n, 15.2

  Aristotle, 13.1, 13.2n, 13.3, 13.4n, 14.1n, 17.1, 19.1

  “Aristovoulos” (Cafavy), n

  Aron, Raymond, 19.1, 19.2n

  Arrow in the Blue (Koestler), 19.1n

  Ascalon, Battle of, 2.1n, 10.1

  Asia Minor, itr.1n, itr.2, 4.1

  Asinaeus, King

  Assyrians, 5.1, 14.1n, 16.1

  Ateli Piimata (Cavafy), 14.1n

  Athenians, itr.1, 2.1n, 4.1, 5.1

  Athens, 3.1n, 4.1, 10.1, 11.1n, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2

  Dionysian festival in

  Parthenon in

  Atkinson, Kenneth, 11.1, nts.1

  Attlee, Clement

  Auden, W. H., 10.1n, 13.1n, 18.1

  Auerbach, Erich, n

  Auge (Euripides), 14.1n

  Augustiani

  Augustine, Saint, 11.1n, 13.1, 16.1

  Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.1n, 3.2, 11.1n, 13.1, 14.1n, 18.1

  Auschwitz, prl.1, 11.1n, 15.1n, 18.1, 18.2

  Austria

  Aviam, Mordechai

  Ayer, A. J., 18.1, 18.2, 19.1n

  Azariah ben Moses Dei Rossi

  Baal Shem Tov, Israel, n

  Babel, Isaac, 3.1n, 9.1, 12.1n

  Babylon, 2.1, 8.1n, 11.1, 16.1

  Babylonian exile, 2.1, 3.1

  Bacchae (Euripides),

  Baeck, Leo

  Balas, Alexander

  Balfour, A. J., n

  Balkan states, n

  Bannus, 2.1, 3.1

  Barker, Sir Evelyn “Bubbles”, n

  Bar-Kochba revolt, 5.1n, 12.1, 17.1n

  Barnes, Julian, n

  Bass, Shabbatai

  Bauckham, Richard

  Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre

  Beard, Mary, n

  Beauvoir, Simone de, n

  Beckett, Samuel

  Being and Time (Heidegger)

  Belisarius

  Bellos, David, n

  Benda, Julien, 3.1, 18.1

  Benefits of Doubt, The (Raphael), 19.1n

  Benjamin, Walter, 17.1n, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4

  Ben Sira

  Berenice, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1, 6.2, 12.1, 13.1

  Berenson, Bernard, n

  Bergelson, David

  Berlin, Isaiah, 6.1n, 19.1n, 19.2, 19.3

  Bernal, Martin, 2.1,
14.1n

  Bernays, Edward,n

  Beth-Horon, 5.1, 5.2, 9.1

  Bevin, Ernest, n

  Beyond the Fringe, 18.1n

  Bible, 11.1, 12.1, 16.1, 17.1, 19.1

  Bikont, Anna, prl.1n, itr.1n, 19.1n

  Black Athena (Bernal), 14.1n

  Black Book, The (Ehrenburg and Grossman), 19.1n

  Blood from the Sky (Rawicz), 9.1n

  blood libel, 12.1n, 17.1

  Bloom, Allan, n

  Bloom, Harold, 9.1, 19.1, nts.1

  Boethus, Joazar ben, n

  Bolsheviks, 19.1, 19.2

  Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni

  Brecht, Bertolt, 3.1n, 9.1, 10.1n

  Britain, Roman, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 11.1, 13.1

  Brittanicus, 5.1n, 14.1n

  Browning, Christopher R., prl.1, 4.1n, 18.1, 19.1

  Brutus, 1.1, 3.1

  Buchenwald, n

  Bulgaria, n

  Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 3.1n, 5.1, 17.1n, 17.2

  Caesar, Gaius Julius, itr.1, 1.1, 3.1n, 8.1, 9.1n, 18.1

  assassination of

  Cleopatra and

  Pompey vs., 1.1n, 1.2

  Caesarea, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 16.1

  Caesarea Philippi

  Cain and Abel, n

  Caligula, Emperor of Rome, 5.1, 8.1, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2

  Callimachus

  Callisthenes

  Cambridge University, 18.1n, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4

  Trinity College of, n

  Camus, Albert, 3.1n, 19.1

  Canaan

  cave of Machpelah in, n

  Canetti, Elias, 2.1n, 19.1

  Cannae, Battle of, itr.1n, 16.1

  cannibalism, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1n, 17.1n

  Capellus, Julius

  Capri, 3.1n, 5.1, 14.1

  Carabas

  Caracalla, Emperor of Rome

  Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss (Meier), 2.1n, 19.1n

  Carlyle, Thomas

  Carrhae, Battle of

  Carthage, 11.1, 14.1

  burning of, itr.1, itr.2, 11.1

  resurrection of, itr.1, 5.1n

  Cartledge, Paul, n

  Cassius, 1.1, 3.1

  Castor

  Cathars, 2.1n, 2.2n, 17.1

  Catholic Encyclopedia, The, 19.1n

  Cato, Marcus Porcius, 8.1, 9.1, 19.1

  Cato the Censor, n

  Catullus, Gaius Valerius, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1

  Cavafy, Constantine, 1.1n, 3.1n, 3.2, 8.1, 14.1, 14.2

  Celan, Paul, n

  Celer

  Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 17.1n, 18.1

  Cesarani, David, 19.1, 19.2

  Chagall, Marc, n

  Charcot, Jean Martin

  Chateaubriand, François-Auguste-René