Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 574 pages)
ISBN:
3110375559
,
3110387190
,
9783110387193
,
9783110375558
,
9783110373028
Serie:
Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies volume 29
Inhalt:
"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"--
Inhalt:
19. The Letter of Aristeas and the Cultural Context of the Septuagint 20. The Twisted Tales of Artapanus: Biblical Rewritings as Novelistic Narrative ; 21. Jews, Greeks, and Romans in the Third Sibylline Oracle ; 22. Subversive Elements in Pseudo-Philo.
Inhalt:
14. Was There Judeophobia in Classical Antiquity? 15. Hellenism and Persecution: Antiochus IV and the Jews ; 16. The Origins and Objectives of Onias' Temple ; 17. Herod, Rome, and the Diaspora ; 18. Caligula, The Imperial Cult, and Philo's Legatio ; Jewish Literary Constructs.
Inhalt:
4. Kinship Relations and Jewish Identity 5. Hellenism and Judaism: Fluid Boundaries ; 6. Jews and Greeks as Philosophers: A Challenge to Otherness ; 7. The Purported Jewish-Spartan Affiliation ; Reciprocal Perspectives ; 8. Jewish Perspectives on Greek Culture and Ethnicity.
Inhalt:
9. The Use and Abuse of the Exodus Story 10. Persia Through the Jewish Looking-Glass ; 11. Greeks and Jews: Mutual Misperceptions in Josephus' Contra Apionem ; 12. Tacitus and the Defamation of the Jews ; Jewish Experience in a Pagan World ; 13. Diaspora and Homeland.
Inhalt:
Overview ; Preface ; First Publications of Essays ; Introduction ; General Reflections ; 1. Cultural Fictions and Cultural Identity ; 2. Hellenistic Judaism ; Jewish Identity and Greco-Roman Culture ; 3. Fact and Fiction: Jewish Legends in a Hellenistic Context.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
,
In English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783110373028
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gruen, Erich S Constructs of identity in Hellenistic Judaism Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Griechenland
;
Römisches Reich
;
Juden
;
Judentum
;
Identität
;
Geschichte
;
Hellenistisch-jüdische Literatur
;
Frühjudentum
;
Literatur
Mehr zum Autor:
Gruen, Erich S. 1935-
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