This comprehensive survey of Jewish-Greek society's development examines the exchange of language and ideas in biblical translations, literature and archaeology.

Preface Amos Oz; 1. Introduction James K. Aitken and James N. Carleton Paget; Part I. History: 2. Jews and Greco-Roman culture: from Alexander to Theodosius II Günter Stemberger; 3. The Jewish experience in Byzantium Steven Bowman; 4. Jews and Jewish communities in the Balkans and the Aegean until the twelfth century Alexander Panayotov; Part II. Historiography: 5. Origen and the Jews and Jewish-Greek-Christian relations William Horbury; 6. Jewish-Greek studies in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Germany: a brief overview Giuseppe Veltri; Part III. Greek Bible and Language: 7. The origins of the Septuagint James N. Carleton Paget; 8. The language of the Septuagint James K. Aitken; 9. Afterlives of the Septuagint: a Christian witness to the Greek Bible in Byzantine Judaism Cameron Boyd-Taylor; 10. Medieval and early modern Judaeo-Greek biblical translations: a linguistic viewpoint Julia Krivoruchko; Part IV. Culture: 11. Philo's knowledge of Hebrew: the meaning of the etymologies Tessa Rajak; 12. The plain and laughter: the hermeneutical function of the sign in Philo of Alexandria Francis Schmidt; 13. Jewish archaeology and art in antiquity David Noy; 14. Jewish-Greek epigraphy in antiquity Pieter van der Horst; 15. The rabbis, the Greek Bible, and Hellenism Philip Alexander; 16. Greek-Hebrew linguistic contacts in late antique and medieval magical texts Gideon Bohak; 17. Jewish and Christian hymnody in the early Byzantine period Wout van Bekkum; 18. On the Hebrew script of the Greek-Hebrew palimpsests from the Cairo Genizah Judith Olszowy-Schlanger.