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Author : John J. Collins
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047407720
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 : Tessa Rajak
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : 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
Author : John Joseph Collins,Gregory E. Sterling
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051286642
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 : Erich S. Gruen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110387193
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
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047407546
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 : Norman Bentwich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Hellenism
ISBN : UCAL:$B68085
Author : Martin Hengel
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592441877
This short but highly significant study is the first real sequel to Professor Martin Hengel's classic and monumental work 'Judaism and Hellenism'. It demonstrates from a wealth of evidence, much of it made readily available here for the first time, that in the New Testament period Hellenization was so widespread in Palestine that the usual distinction between Hellenistic Judaism and Palestinian Judaism is not a valid one and that the word Hellenistic and related terms are so vague as to be meaningless. The consequences of this for New Testament study are, of course, considerable.
Author : Erich S. Gruen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0585103356
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 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?
Author : Norman De Mattos Bentwich
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473381193
A fascinating insight into the spread of Greek culture that went with the invasion forces of Alexander the great as he invaded and captured the countries of the middle east.
Author : Martin Hengel
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015000597701
Author : Helmut Koester
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783112321478
No detailed description available for "History, Culture, and Religion of the Hellenistic Age".
Author : Bezalel Bar-Kochva
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520290846
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.
Author : Erich S. Gruen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520235069
In these fictive creations, Jewish writers reinvented their own past, offering us vital insights into Jewish self-perception.
Author : Shemaryahu Talmon,International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015025258180
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 : Rivka Ulmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 9783110223927
Rabbinic midrash of late antiquity and the early medieval period visualized Egypt and presented Egyptian religious concepts and icons. Midrash is analyzed in a cross-cultural perspective utilizing insights from the discipline of Egyptology. Topics: the Greco-Roman Nile god, Isis, Serapis and other gods, festivals, mummy portraits, funeral customs, the Egyptian language, Pharaohs, Cleopatra, Alexandria, the divine eye. The hermeneutical role of Egyptian cultural icons in midrash is explored.