Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jews

Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jews

Author: Albert I. Baumgarten

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9783161501715

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"Albert Baumgarten presents the biography of one of the most distinguished historians of the Jews in antiquity that demonstrates the important connections between his scholarship, life and times. The events of the twentieth century provide the context for the analysis of Bickerman's scholarly production." --Back cover.


The Jews in the Greek Age

The Jews in the Greek Age

Author: Elias Joseph Bickerman

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780674474901

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A history of the Jews in the Greek age, charting issues of stability and change in Jewish society during a period that ranges from the conquest of Palestine by Alexander the Great in the fourth century, until approximately 175 B.C.E. and the revolt of the Maccabees.


History Of The Jewish People Vol 1

History Of The Jewish People Vol 1

Author: Charles Foster Kent

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1135779996

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First published in 2007. This classic work explores the seminal early periods of Jewish history. The destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. by the army of Nebuchadnezzar marks a radical turning point in the life of the people of Jehovah, for then the history of the Hebrew state and monarchy ends, and the Jewish history, the records of experiences, not of a nation but of the scattered, oppressed remnants of the Jewish people, begins.


From Ezra to the Last of the Maccabees

From Ezra to the Last of the Maccabees

Author: Elias Bickerman

Publisher: Franklin Classics

Published: 2018-10-15

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9780343212209

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The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age

The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age

Author: William David Davies

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 766

ISBN-13: 9780521219297

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Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.


Palaces of Time

Palaces of Time

Author: Elisheva Carlebach

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-04-04

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0674052544

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Palaces of Time resurrects the seemingly banal calendar as a means to understand early modern Jewish life. Elisheva Carlebach has unearthed a trove of beautifully illustrated calendars, to show how Jewish men and women both adapted to the Christian world and also forged their own meanings through time.


The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature

The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature

Author: Bezalel Bar-Kochva

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2016-02-09

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 0520290844

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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.


Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution

Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution

Author: Kenneth B. Moss

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-10-30

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780674035102

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Between 1917 and 1921, Jewish intellectuals and writers across the Russian empire pursued a “Jewish renaissance.” Here is a revisionist argument about the nature of cultural nationalism, the relationship between nationalism and socialism, and culture itself—the pivot point for the encounter between Jews and European modernity over the past century.


The Jewish Expression

The Jewish Expression

Author: Judah Goldin

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1976-01-01

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 9780300019759

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In this classic collection, leading modern scholars examine and interpret 3,000 years of Jewish literature and history. The essays study the actions and institutions of the Jewish people as well as their literary tradition. Included are essays on medieval poetry (Shalom Spiegel), Jewish thought and Jewish learning (Harry Austryn Wolfson and Louis Ginzberg); Spinoza (Leo Strauss); the Kaddish (S. Y. Agnon), and many more. Each essay reveals the diverse ways in which the Judaic tradition interacts with contemporary events, so that the Jewish expression remains vital and immediate.


Alienated Minority

Alienated Minority

Author: Kenneth Stow

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-01

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780674044050

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This narrative history surveying one thousand years of Jewish life integrates the Jewish experience into the context of the overall culture and society of medieval Europe. It presents a new picture of the interaction between Christians and Jews in this tumultuous era. Alienated Minority shows us what it meant to be a Jew in Europe in the Middle Ages. The story begins in the fifth century, when autonomous Jewish rule in Palestine came to a close, and when the papacy, led by Gregory the Great, established enduring principles regarding Christian policy toward Jews. Kenneth Stow examines the structures of self-government in the European Jewish community and the centrality of emerging concepts of representation. He studies economic enterprise, especially banking; constructs a clear image of the medieval Jewish family; and portrays in detail the very rich Jewish intellectual life. Analyzing policies of Church and State in the Middle Ages, Stow argues that a firmly defined legal and constitutional position of the Jewish minority in the earlier period gave way to a legal status created expressly for Jews, who in the later period were seen as inimical to the common good. It was this special status that paved the way for the royal expulsions of Jews that began at the end of the thirteenth century.