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Jews and Judaism.1 This study presents the Greek and Latin texts together with English translations, accompanied by introductory remarks and a commentary. Consequently, we now possess reliable information about the opinions of pagan authors of antiquity concerning Judaism. However, an up-to-date collection of fragments from Jewish-Hellenistic literature is still lacking.2 Such a collection would present the Jewish side of the debate between Hellenistic (and Roman) culture and civilisation on the one hand, and the Jewish Weltanschauung on the other hand. A comparison of these two competitive worlds would illustrate the great similarity in the art of argumentation between the Graeco-Roman and Jewish adversaries. For example, on the Greek (and Roman) side there is an interpretatio Graeca (or even antisemitica) of the Jewish religion; conversely, on the Jewish side we find an interpretatio Judaica of the pagan and especially the Egyptian religion. The present study is a contribution to the latter. In the Bible, Pharaoh's daughter who rescued the child Moses (Ex. 2: 5-10) remained anonymous. In rabbinic sources this foster mother of Moses was given the name Bithiah,3 a name borrowed from 1 Chr. 4: 18
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