Format:
1 Online-Ressource (588 S.)
ISBN:
3110373025
Series Statement:
Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies Volume 29
Content:
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. Erich S. Gruen, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Content:
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 -- 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
Content:
8. Jewish Perspectives on Greek Culture and Ethnicity -- 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 -- 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
Content:
18. Caligula, The Imperial Cult, and Philo's Legatio -- Jewish Literary Constructs -- 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 -- 23. Jewish Literature and the Second Sophistic -- List of Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index of People, Places and Subjects -- Index of Primary Sources
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Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110375559
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110387193
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110373028
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gruen, Erich S., 1935 - The construct of identity in Hellenistic Judaism Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016 ISBN 9783110373028
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110375565
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110375567
Language:
English
Keywords:
Griechenland
;
Römisches Reich
;
Juden
;
Judentum
;
Identität
;
Geschichte
;
Hellenistisch-jüdische Literatur
;
Frühjudentum
;
Literatur
;
Electronic books
;
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Author information:
Gruen, Erich S. 1935-
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