Jewish Civilization In The Hellenistic Roman Period

Author : Shemaryahu Talmon,International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015025258180

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Jewish Civilization in the Hellenistic-Roman Period by Shemaryahu Talmon,International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization Pdf

An impressive array of international scholars here provides fresh insights into themes related to Jewish civilization in the late Second Temple period and considers the role that should be assigned to the Qumran scrolls. Part I focuses on the history, society and literature of the Judaism of this period. Part II considers the light shed by the Qumran scrolls on this so-called dark age in the history of Judaism. A progress report on the scrolls is followed by chapters on their various implications.

Author : Erich S. Gruen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520929197

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Heritage and Hellenism by Erich S. Gruen Pdf

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 R. Bartlett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134663996

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Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities by John R. Bartlett Pdf

A comprehensive study of Jews in the classical world. Articles examine Jerusalem and other Jewish communities on the Mediterranean, as found in the writings of Luke, Josephus and Philo.

Author : John Joseph Collins,Gregory E. Sterling
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051286642

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Hellenism in the Land of Israel by John Joseph Collins,Gregory E. Sterling Pdf

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 J. Collins
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047407720

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Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture by John J. Collins Pdf

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.

Author : Helmut Koester
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110814064

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History, Culture, and Religion of the Hellenistic Age by Helmut Koester Pdf

While the first American edition of this book, published more than a decade ago, was a revised translation of the German book, Einführung in das Neue Testament, this second edition of the first volume of the Introduction to the New Testament is no longer dependent upon a previously published German work. The author hopes that for the student of the New Testament it is a useful introduction into the many complex aspects of the political, cultural, and religious developments that characterized the world in which early Christianity arose and by which the New Testament and other early Christian writings were shaped.

Author : Carol Bakhos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047414537

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Ancient Judaism in its Hellenistic Context by Carol Bakhos Pdf

This volume explores the ways in which Jews lived within the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman contexts, how they negotiated their religious and social boundaries in their own distinctive manner. Scholars demonstrate how the Jewish encounter with Hellenism led not to a conscious struggle with alien forces but rather in many instances to an active re-tailoring and re-shaping of tradition in light of their material, ideological and philosophical surroundings. That is to say, the Jews, a minority people, maintained their identity by adapting the trappings, to varying degrees, of their milieu. These essays also reflect many issues that emerge when we study the development of several aspects of Jewish Civilization through the ages in light of broad socio-political, cultural and philosophical contexts.

Author : Lee I. Levine
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295803821

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Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity by Lee I. Levine Pdf

Generations of scholars have debated the influence of Greco-Roman culture on Jewish society and the degree of its impact on Jewish material culture and religious practice in Palestine and the Diaspora of antiquity. Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity examines this phenomenon from the aftermath of Alexander’s conquest to the Byzantine era, offering a balanced view of the literary, epigraphical, and archeological evidence attesting to the process of Hellenization in Jewish life and its impact on several aspects of Judaism as we know it today. Lee Levine approaches this broad subject in three essays, each focusing on diverse issues in Jewish culture: Jerusalem at the end of the Second Temple period, rabbinic tradition, and the ancient synagogue. With his comprehensive and thorough knowledge of the intricate dynamics of the Jewish and Greco-Roman societies, the author demonstrates the complexities of Hellenization and its role in shaping many aspects of Jewish life—economic, social, political, cultural, and religious. He argues against oversimplification and encourages a more nuanced view, whereby the Jews of antiquity survived and prospered, despite the social and political upheavals of this era, emerging as perpetuators of their own Jewish traditions while open to change from the outside world.

Author : Erich S. Gruen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110387193

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The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism by Erich S. Gruen Pdf

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 : Avigdor Tcherikover,Victor Tcherikover
Publisher : Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002284951

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Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews by Avigdor Tcherikover,Victor Tcherikover Pdf

Author : Martin Hengel
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Hellenism
ISBN : UCAL:B4374222

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Jews, Greeks, and Barbarians by Martin Hengel Pdf

Author : Louis H. Feldman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004332836

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Studies in Hellenistic Judaism by Louis H. Feldman Pdf

This volume consists of 23 essays that have appeared in 19 different journals and other publications during a period of over 40 years, together with an introduction. The essays deal primarily with the relations between Jews and non-Jews during the period from Alexander the Great to the end of the Roman Empire, in five areas: Josephus; Judaism and Christianity; Latin literature and the Jews; the Romans in Rabbinic literature; and other studies in Hellenistic Judaism. The topics include a programmatic essay comparing Hebraism and Hellenism, pro-Jewish intimations in Apion and in Tacitus, the influence of Josephus on Cotton Mather, Philo's view on music, the relationship between pagan and Christian anti-Semitism, observations on rabbinic reaction to Roman rule, and new light from inscriptions and papyri on Diaspora synagogues.

Author : Victor Tcherikover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Greece
ISBN : 1565634764

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Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews by Victor Tcherikover Pdf

The encounter between Jews and Greeks marked one of the most revolutionary meetings in the ancient world, for in that encounter politics, economics, culture, and religion changed dramatically. Victor Tcherikover, who devoted his entire scholarly life to the study of the Hellenistic period, offers here a benchmark assessment of that encounter. In this reprinted edition of his most famous work, including a new preface by University of Chicago Professor John J. Collins, Tcherikover uniquely combines "analyses of two of the most intriguing episodes of Jewish history in antiquity: the events that led to the Maccabean rebellion and the struggle for rights in Alexandria in the first century C.E." (from the preface).

Author : Erich S. Gruen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0674037995

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Diaspora by Erich S. Gruen Pdf

What was life like for Jews settled throughout the Mediterranean world of Classical antiquity--and what place did Jewish communities have in the diverse civilization dominated by Greeks and Romans? In a probing account of the Jewish diaspora in the four centuries from Alexander the Great's conquest of the Near East to the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 C.E., Erich Gruen reaches often surprising conclusions. By the first century of our era, Jews living abroad far outnumbered those living in Palestine and had done so for generations. Substantial Jewish communities were found throughout the Greek mainland and Aegean islands, Asia Minor, the Tigris-Euphrates valley, Egypt, and Italy. Focusing especially on Alexandria, Greek cities in Asia Minor, and Rome, Gruen explores the lives of these Jews: the obstacles they encountered, the institutions they established, and their strategies for adjustment. He also delves into Jewish writing in this period, teasing out how Jews in the diaspora saw themselves. There emerges a picture of a Jewish minority that was at home in Greco-Roman cities: subject to only sporadic harassment; its intellectuals immersed in Greco-Roman culture while refashioning it for their own purposes; exhibiting little sign of insecurity in an alien society; and demonstrating both a respect for the Holy Land and a commitment to the local community and Gentile government. Gruen's innovative analysis of the historical and literary record alters our understanding of the way this vibrant minority culture engaged with the dominant Classical civilization.

Author : Martin Hengel
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592441860

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Judaism and Hellenism by Martin Hengel Pdf

Martin Hengel gathers an encyclopedic amount of material, ancient and modern, to present an exhaustive survey of the early course of Hellenistic civilization as it related to developing Judaism. The result is a highly readable account of a largely unfamiliar world which is indispensable for those interested in Judaism and the birth of Christianity alike. An extensive section of notes and bibliography is included.