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Author: John Joseph Collins Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
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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.
Author: John Joseph Collins Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
Book Description
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.
Author: Louis H. Feldman Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004149066 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 969
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Presents a collection of 26 articles, with an introduction on "The Influence of Hellenism on Jews in Palestine in the Hellenistic Period.".
Author: Aryeh Kasher Publisher: ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 188
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This collection includes a selection of research articles dealing with the interplay between Judaism and Hellenism in Eretz Israel (The Land of Israel), resulting in lasting effects left by Greece and Rome upon the society, creative spirit, and material culture of the land. Among the topics dealt with are: the interrelationships of Jews and Gentiles; the roots and forms taken by anti-Semitism in the Hellenistic and Roman world; military and political events, issues in ancient historiography, economics, administration, and jurisprudence; ancient construction projects in light of recent archaeological discoveries, and more. The authors are leading scholars in the field, from Israel and abroad, who originally prepared these essays as lectures delivered at an international academic conference held in Israel.
Author: Louis H. Feldman Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400820804 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 691
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Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true, asks Louis Feldman, how did Jews succeed in winning so many adherents, whether full-fledged proselytes or "sympathizers" who adopted one or more Jewish practices? Systematically evaluating attitudes toward Jews from the time of Alexander the Great to the fifth century A.D., Feldman finds that Judaism elicited strongly positive and not merely unfavorable responses from the non-Jewish population. Jews were a vigorous presence in the ancient world, and Judaism was strengthened substantially by the development of the Talmud. Although Jews in the Diaspora were deeply Hellenized, those who remained in Israel were able to resist the cultural inroads of Hellenism and even to initiate intellectual counterattacks. Feldman draws on a wide variety of material, from Philo, Josephus, and other Graeco-Jewish writers through the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha, the Church Councils, Church Fathers, and imperial decrees to Talmudic and Midrashic writings and inscriptions and papyri. What emerges is a rich description of a long era to which conceptions of Jewish history as uninterrupted weakness and suffering do not apply.
Author: Erich S. Gruen Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110387190 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 540
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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.
Author: Arkady Kovelman Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9047407547 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 191
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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.
Author: Erich S. Gruen Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520929195 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 361
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The interaction of Jew and Greek in antiquity intrigues the imagination. Both civilizations boasted great traditions, their roots stretching back to legendary ancestors and divine sanction. In the wake of Alexander the Great's triumphant successes, Greeks and Macedonians came as conquerors and settled as ruling classes in the lands of the eastern Mediterranean. Hellenic culture, the culture of the ascendant classes in many of the cities of the Near East, held widespread attraction and appeal. Jews were certainly not immune. In this thoroughly researched, lucidly written work, Erich Gruen draws on a wide variety of literary and historical texts of the period to explore a central question: How did the Jews accommodate themselves to the larger cultural world of the Mediterranean while at the same time reasserting the character of their own heritage within it? Erich Gruen's work highlights Jewish creativity, ingenuity, and inventiveness, as the Jews engaged actively with the traditions of Hellas, adapting genres and transforming legends to articulate their own legacy in modes congenial to a Hellenistic setting. Drawing on a diverse array of texts composed in Greek by Jews over a broad period of time, Gruen explores works by Jewish historians, epic poets, tragic dramatists, writers of romance and novels, exegetes, philosophers, apocalyptic visionaries, and composers of fanciful fables—not to mention pseudonymous forgers and fabricators. In these works, Jewish writers reinvented their own past, offering us the best insights into Jewish self-perception in that era.
Author: John Joseph Collins
Author: John Joseph Collins
Author: Louis H. Feldman
Author: Aryeh Kasher
Author: Aryeh Kasher
Author: Louis H. Feldman
Author: Erich S. Gruen
Author: Norman Bentwich
Author: Arkady Kovelman
Author: Erich S. Gruen
Author: Aryeh Kasher