Who Reads Greek in 3rd Century CE Oxyrhynchus?: The Jewish Community of Oxyrhynchus Before and After 117 CE

Who Reads Greek in 3rd Century CE Oxyrhynchus?: The Jewish Community of Oxyrhynchus Before and After 117 CE

Wednesday 29th November
Florey Room

Meron Piotrkowski, Associate Professor of Ancient Jewish History, University of Oxford

AWRC members are welcome to join the speaker for lunch in Hall at 12.30 prior to his talk. The talk will begin at 1.15, catered with tea, coffee and cakes (all welcome).

In this presentation of Meron’s book project: "Jewish Oxyrhynchus: The History of the Jewish Community of Oxyrhynchus Before and After 117 CE”, he will test, inter alia, the generally accepted hypothesis that Egyptian Jews and Judaism were completely annihilated as an immediate outcome of the Jewish Diaspora Revolt (115-117 CE). Through his examination of Jewish papyri discovered at Oxyrhynchus (Egypt) and Greek biblical papyri, Meron seeks to understand the fate of the post-117 CE Hellenized Jewish community of Oxyrhynchus.