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.



AWRC members are welcome to join Meron 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).

It is widely believed that Greek speakers borrowed words from Latin mainly in late antiquity, that these borrowings were very numerous but short-lived, and that they consisted mainly of legal, military and administrative vocabulary. But a new examination of the evidence suggests that none of these generalisations is right -- nor are most of the other statements normally made about these loanwords. On the basis of a massive lexicon of Latin words appearing in ancient Greek sources, forthcoming from Cambridge later this year, I will argue for a new understanding of Latin loanwords and their Greek contexts as well as discussing what has misled earlier researchers.



For members of the Ancient World Research Cluster Eleanor will join us for lunch in Hall at 12.30.