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1 online resource |
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Deuterocanonical and Cognate literature studies ; volume 29 |
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Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies ; v. 29.
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| Contents |
Cultural fictions and cultural identity -- Hellenistic Judaism -- Fact and fiction : Jewish legends in a Hellenistic context -- Kinship relations and Jewish identity -- Hellenism and Judaism : fluid boundaries -- Jews and Greeks as philosophers : a challenge to otherness -- The purported Jewish-Spartan affiliation -- Jewish perspectives on Greek culture and ethnicity -- The use and abuse of the Exodus story -- Persia through the Jewish looking-glass -- Greeks and Jews : mutual misperceptions in Josephus' Contra Apionem -- Tacitus and the defamation of the Jews -- Diaspora and homeland -- Was there Judeophobia in classical antiquity? -- Hellenism and persecution : Antiochus IV and the Jews -- The origins and objectives of Onias' temple -- Herod, Rome, and the diaspora -- Caligula, the imperial cult, and Philo's Legatio -- The Letter of Aristeas and the cultural context of the Septuagint -- The twisted tales of Artapanus : biblical rewritings as novelistic narrative -- Jews, Greeks, and Romans in the Third Sibylline Oracle -- Subversive elements in Pseudo-Philo -- Jewish literature and the Second Sophistic |
| Summary |
This volume assembles twenty-three essays 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. Twenty-two of the articles have previously been published, and one new one was composed for the volume |
| Notes |
This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D.
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Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
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Jews -- Identity -- To 1500
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Jewish literature -- History and criticism
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Jewish studies.
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Jewish literature.
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Jews.
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Jews -- Identity.
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Judaism -- Post-exilic period (Judaism)
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Essays.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110387193 |
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3110387190 |
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