negotiation of presupposition and evidence. The textual and archaeological evidence from the ancient world that tells us about Judaism needs interpretation in order to be understood. However, this is no simple [...] this paper is the problematic nature of our evidence for the Judaisms of the ancient Græco-Roman world. While presupposition is important for coming up with a research question, in the study of Græco-Roman [...] warrant the composition of a Hebrew or Aramaic history of the events! The situation in the Hellenistic world and the interactions it allowed are therefore more complicated that we might expect – 2 Maccabees