The Bible And Hellenism

Author : Thomas L. Thompson,Philippe Wajdenbaum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317544265

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The Bible and Hellenism by Thomas L. Thompson,Philippe Wajdenbaum Pdf

Did the Bible only take its definitive form after Alexander conquered the Near East, after the Hellenisation of the Samaritans and Jews, and after the founding of the great library of Alexandria? The Bible and Hellenism takes up one of the most pressing and controversial questions of Bible Studies today: the influence of classical literature on the writing and formation of the Bible. Bringing together a wide range of international scholars, The Bible and Hellenism explores the striking parallels between biblical and earlier Greek literature and examines the methodological issues raised by such comparative study. The book argues that the oral traditions of historical memory are not the key factor in the creation of biblical narrative. It demonstrates that Greek texts – from such authors as Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus and Plato – must be considered amongst the most important sources for the Bible.

Author : Robert Karl Gnuse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000164923

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Hellenism and the Primary History by Robert Karl Gnuse Pdf

This collection of essays seeks to demonstrate that many biblical authors deliberately used Classical and Hellenistic Greek texts for inspiration when crafting many of the narratives in the Primary History. Through detailed analysis of the text, Gnuse contends that there are numerous examples of clear influence from late classical and Hellenistic literature. Deconstructing the biblical and Greek works in parallel, he argues that there are too many similarities in basic theme, meaning, and detail, for them to be accounted for by coincidence or shared ancient tropes. Using this evidence, he suggests that although much of the text may originate from the Persian period, large parts of its final form likely date from the Hellenistic era. With the help of an original introduction and final chapter, Gnuse pulls his essays together into a coherent collection for the first time. The resultant volume offers a valuable resource for anyone working on the dating of the Hebrew Bible, as well as those working on Hellenism in the ancient Levant more broadly.

Author : Stanley E. Porter,Andrew Pitts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004234765

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Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism by Stanley E. Porter,Andrew Pitts Pdf

In Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism, Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through reference to Hellenistic Judaism and its literary forms.

Author : Ronald H. Nash
Publisher : Zondervan Publishing Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001617294

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Christianity and the Hellenistic World by Ronald H. Nash Pdf

Cover title: Christianity & the Hellenistic world. Bibliography: p. 309-311. Includes indexes.

Author : Gerald Friedlander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Bible
ISBN : LCCN:49043797

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Hellenism and Christianity by Gerald Friedlander Pdf

Author : Hyam Maccoby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019827388

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Paul and Hellenism by Hyam Maccoby Pdf

Seeks the origins of later Christian anti-Judaism in Gnosticism and Pauline theology. Describes Gnostic anti-Judaism as directed primarily against the Jewish God and his law, rather than against the Jewish people who are their blind servants. Judaism for the Gnostics is more contemptible than dangerous, since its power is only in this world, to which the Gnostics attached no importance. Suggests that their hostility was aroused by Judaism's claim to equate its God with the higher God of Hellenistic thought. Paul took over much of the Gnostic two-power scheme, including the view of the Jews as blind servants of the Law. Argues that his own anti-Judaism did not go beyond that of the Gnostics. But in seeing the Crucifixion as central to salvation, and in singling out the Jews for a special role in salvation history, he added to the Gnostic two-power theology elements that later took shape as the Christian view of the Jews as Christ-killers and instruments of Satan.

Author : Pieter Willem van der Horst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Bible
ISBN : UIUC:30112001161170

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Hellenism, Judaism, Christianity by Pieter Willem van der Horst Pdf

Author : Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664224067

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Paul Beyond the Judaism/Hellenism Divide by Troels Engberg-Pedersen Pdf

This insightful book intends to do away with the traditional strategy of playing Judaism and Hellenism out against one another as a context for understanding Paul. Case studies focus specifically on the Corinthian correspondence.

Author : Helmut Koester
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Bibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025152393

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Introduction to the New Testament: 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 : Pieter Willem van der Horst
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9042911379

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Japheth in the Tents of Shem by Pieter Willem van der Horst Pdf

A collection of fifteen essays, most of them published previously. Ch. 6 (pp. 109-118), "Jews and Christians in Antioch at the End of the Fourth Century" [appeared in "Christian-Jewish Relations through the Centuries" (2000)], contrasts the vitriolic anti-Jewish polemics of John Chrysostom in regard to Judaizing with the attitude of the "Apostolic Constitutions" (material on ecclesiastical law). The latter, instead of denigrating the Jews, borrowed from them aspects of Judaism that local Christians found attractive. Ch. 12 (pp. 207-221), "Who Was Apion?" [unpublished], focuses on Apion's "scholarship" and writing, i.e. activities other than his anti-Jewish polemics. However, notes that Apion's self-proclaimed originality included his invention of the libel of Jewish cannibalism.

Author : Sylvie Honigman,Christophe Nihan,Oded Lipschits
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781646021451

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Times of Transition by Sylvie Honigman,Christophe Nihan,Oded Lipschits Pdf

This multidisciplinary study takes a fresh look at Judean history and biblical literature in the late fourth and third centuries BCE. In a major reappraisal of this era, the contributions to this volume depict it as one in which critical changes took place. Until recently, the period from Alexander’s conquest in 332 BCE to the early years of Seleucid domination following Antiochus III’s conquest in 198 BCE was reputed to be poorly documented in material evidence and textual production, buttressing the view that the era from late Persian to Hasmonean times was one of seamless continuity. Biblical scholars believed that no literary activity belonged to the Hellenistic age, and archaeologists were unable to refine their understanding because of a lack of secure chronological markers. However, recent studies are revealing this period as one of major social changes and intense literary activity. Historians have shed new light on the nature of the Hellenistic empires and the relationship between the central power and local entities in ancient imperial settings, and the redating of several biblical texts to the third century BCE challenges the traditional periodization of Judean history. Bringing together Hellenistic history, the archaeology of Judea, and biblical studies, this volume appraises the early Hellenistic period anew as a time of great transition and change and situates Judea within its broader regional and transregional imperial contexts.

Author : David Collins,John Joseph Collins
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567086232

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Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age by David Collins,John Joseph Collins Pdf

In this exploration of Jewish wisdom during the Hellenistic period, internationally renowned scholar John J. Collins examines the books of Sirach and the Wisdom of Solomon, the Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides, and the recently discovered Qumran Sapiential A text from the Dead Sea Scrolls - offering one of the first such examinations of this text in print. This commentary is a compelling analysis of these important texts and their continuing traditions.

Author : Erich S. Gruen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Hispanic Americans
ISBN : 0199913706

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Oxford Bibliographies by Ilan Stavans Pdf

"An emerging field of study that explores the Hispanic minority in the United States, Latino Studies is enriched by an interdisciplinary perspective. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, demographers, linguists, as well as religion, ethnicity, and culture scholars, among others, bring a varied, multifaceted approach to the understanding of a people whose roots are all over the Americas and whose permanent home is north of the Rio Grande. Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies offers an authoritative, trustworthy, and up-to-date intellectual map to this ever-changing discipline."--Editorial page.

Author : Friedlander Gerald
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0526346159

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Hellenism and Christianity by Friedlander Gerald Pdf

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