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Author: Peter Schäfer
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780415305853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines Judaism in Palestine throughout the Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great's conquest in 334 BC to its capture by the Arabs in AD 636.
Author: Peter Schäfer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-26
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1134371373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1995, the main emphasis of this book is on the political history of the Jews in Palestine, where "political" is to be understood not as the mere succession of rulers and battles but as the interaction between political activity and social, economic and religious circumstances. A particular concern is the investigation of social and economic conditions in the history of Palestinian Judaism.
Author: Jörg Frey
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9004158383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book addresses critical issues of the formation and development of Jewish identity in the late Second Temple period. How could Jewish identity be defined? What about the status of women and the image of 'others'? And what about its ongoing influence in early Christianity?
Author: Steven Fine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-06-08
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521844918
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Author: Martin Goodman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 1998-12-18
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0191518360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains studies of the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world. Some of the sixteen contributors are specialists in Jewish history, others in classics. They tackle from different angles the extent to which Jews in this period differed from other peoples in the Mediterranean region, and how much Jewish evidence can be used for the history of the wider classical world. The authors make extensive use not only of types of evidence familiar to classicists, such as inscriptions and the writing of Josephus, but also Jewish religious literature, including rabbinic texts. The various studies demonstrate that, although Jews lived to some extent apart from others and with distinctive customs, in many ways this showed the cultural presuppositions and preoccupations of their gentile contemporaries. The book aims to encourage wider use of the Jewish evidence by classicists and will be important for all students of the classical world.
Author: Louis H. Feldman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-08-10
Total Pages: 691
ISBN-13: 1400820804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelations 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: Elias Joseph Bickerman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780674474901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Author: Peter Schafer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-26
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1134371306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Erich S. Gruen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2016-09-12
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 3110387190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Judith Lieu
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2006-02-16
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780199291427
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'I am a Christian' is the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts and, no doubt, of many others; but what did this confession mean, and how was early Christian identity constructed? This book is a highly original exploration of how a sense of being 'a Christian', or of 'Christian identity', was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world. Contemporary discussions of identity provide the background to a careful study of early Christian texts from the first two centuries. Judith Lieu shows that there were similarities and differences in the ways Jews and others were thinking about themselves, and asks what made early Christianity distinctive.
