The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature
Title | The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Bezalel Bar-Kochva |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 629 |
Release | 2010-02-02 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0520943635 |
This landmark contribution to ongoing debates about perceptions of the Jews in antiquity examines the attitudes of Greek writers of the Hellenistic period toward the Jewish people. Among the leading Greek intellectuals who devoted special attention to the Jews were Theophrastus (the successor of Aristotle), Hecataeus of Abdera (the father of "scientific" ethnography), and Apollonius Molon (probably the greatest rhetorician of the Hellenistic world). Bezalel Bar-Kochva examines the references of these writers and others to the Jews in light of their literary output and personal background; their religious, social, and political views; their literary and stylistic methods; ethnographic stereotypes current at the time; and more.
The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature
Title | The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Bezalel Bar-Kochva |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 632 |
Release | 2016-02-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520290844 |
This landmark contribution to ongoing debates about perceptions of the Jews in antiquity examines the attitudes of Greek writers of the Hellenistic period toward the Jewish people. Among the leading Greek intellectuals who devoted special attention to the Jews were Theophrastus (the successor of Aristotle), Hecataeus of Abdera (the father of "scientific" ethnography), and Apollonius Molon (probably the greatest rhetorician of the Hellenistic world). Bezalel Bar-Kochva examines the references of these writers and others to the Jews in light of their literary output and personal background; their religious, social, and political views; their literary and stylistic methods; ethnographic stereotypes current at the time; and more.
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.
The Jews Among the Greeks and Romans
Title | The Jews Among the Greeks and Romans PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret H. Williams |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
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This collection of freshly translated texts is designed to introduce those interested in Graeco-Roman and Jewish culture to the realities of Jewish life outside Israel between 323 BC and the middle of the 5th century AD.
The Jews Among the Greeks and Romans
Title | The Jews Among the Greeks and Romans PDF eBook |
Author | Max Radin |
Publisher | Philadelphia Jewish Publication Society of America 1915. |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Hellenism |
ISBN |
Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World
Title | Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Fine |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2005-06-08 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780521844918 |
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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.