ABSTRACT
As for those anti-Semites and color-bigots of yore, how did they really talk? Modern records are a modest, limited source; and the historians of ancient eras find slim pickings among the sparse Graeco-Roman inscriptions and fragmentary manuscripts. For the J-word I can recommend a three-volume compilation which translates every scrap of evidence which has come down to us pertaining to the Biblical people whom the serene Marcus Aurelius found “more troublesome” than any other in the Roman Empire of his reign. 1
