Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture
Title | Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture PDF eBook |
Author | John J. Collins |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2005-07-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9047407725 |
A collection of twelve essays on the Jewish encounter with Hellenism, both in the Diaspora and in the land of Israel, including studies of several individual texts.
Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers
Title | Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers PDF eBook |
Author | Tessa Rajak |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520250842 |
"The lively, serious, and informed discussions in this book provide impressive examples of the insights achieved when the Jewish evidence of the late Second Temple period is shown both to illuminate and to reflect the wider history of the Hellenistic world."—Martin Goodman, author of Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations "What sets this book apart is that it bears the fruits of a truly interdisciplinary investigation into the topic. The result sheds light not just on Hellenistic kings and how they were viewed by their Jewish subjects, but also on the early Greek Bible and, more generally, the meeting of, and cross-fertilization between, Jewish and Graeco-Roman culture that occurred in the centuries following Alexander's conquest."—Guido Schepens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven "This wonderful collection of essays illuminates many facets of kingship in the Hellenistic world. The essays range over Hellenistic philosophy, Jewish fiction, the nuances of translation in the Greek Bible and archaeological evidence. Richly informative, and enjoyable reading besides!"—John J. Collins, author of Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture "This wide-ranging collection of essays brings together the too often separate perspectives of classical scholarship and Jewish studies. Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers will be an indispensable reference work for anyone working on virtually any aspect of Hellenistic Jewish studies."—Sara Raup Johnson, author of Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity: Third Maccabees in its Cultural Context "This thought-provoking book presents a series of superb studies on Jewish-Greek views of hellenistic monarchy that together are suggestive of the rich interplay between Hellenistic Jewish intellectual traditions and their deep connections to the greater world of the Hellenistic monarchies. The volume will surely stimulate much more work on the subject, and will be required reading for all those whose interests touch on the subject of Hellenistic Judaism and Hellenistic history and culture more broadly."—J.G. Manning, author of Land and Power in Hellenistic Egypt: The Structure of Land Tenure
Hellenism
Title | Hellenism PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Bentwich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Hellenism |
ISBN |
Hellenism in the Land of Israel
Title | Hellenism in the Land of Israel PDF eBook |
Author | John Joseph Collins |
Publisher | University of Notre Dame Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
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This book is a collection of essays that explore the variety of ways in which Jews in Israel responded to and appropriated Greek culture. In various ways the contributors provide corroborating evidence of the influence of Greek culture in Judea and Galilee, from before the Maccabean revolt on into the rabbinic period. At the same time, they probe the limits of that influence, the persistence of Semitic languages and thought patterns, and especially the exclusiveness of Jewish religion.
Between Alexandria and Jerusalem
Title | Between Alexandria and Jerusalem PDF eBook |
Author | Arkady Kovelman |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2005-07-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9047407547 |
The book exhibits the dynamics of Jewish culture from Alexandrian exegesis to the Talmud in the framework of literary revolutions. These revolutions followed the crisis of tradition and the appearance of 'mass society' in Late Antiquity.
The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism
Title | The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism PDF eBook |
Author | Erich S. Gruen |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 2016-09-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3110387190 |
This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature and history of early Judaism and the experience of the Jews in the Greco-Roman world. His many articles on this subject have, however, appeared mostly in conference volumes and Festschriften, and have therefore not had wide circulation. By putting them together in a single work, this will bring the essays to the attention of a much broader scholarly readership and make them more readily available to students in the fields of ancient history and early Judaism. The pieces are quite varied, but develop a number of connected and related themes: Jewish identity in the pagan world, the literary representations by Jews and pagans of one another, the interconnections of Hellenism and Judaism, and the Jewish experience under Hellenistic monarchies and the Roman empire.
Heritage and Hellenism
Title | Heritage and Hellenism PDF eBook |
Author | Erich S. Gruen |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2002-02-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520235061 |
In these fictive creations, Jewish writers reinvented their own past, offering us vital insights into Jewish self-perception.