Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 738 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781139055123
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This is the second of four volumes covering the history of Judaism from the Persian period, roughly 539–322 BCE, to the Tannaitic period, which culminated in the codification of the Mishnah around 250 CE. It deals with the encounter of Judaism with the Hellenistic culture spread throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond by Alexander the Great and his successors. The volume describes both the rejection and adoption of Hellenism by Judaism. Religiously the rejection provoked new developments and politically the Maccabaean Revolt, which resulted in the creation of the independent Hasmonean state, 142–63 BCE. Culturally, the adoption of Hellenistic forms by Judaism led to a significant Jewish-Greek and Hebrew and Aramaic literature. At the same time, the tensions in the religious, intellectual, social and political life of Jews spawned apocalyptic thought and literature. In the light of the interpenetration of Judaism and Hellenism in this period the volume questions some established dichotomies
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015)
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The archeology of Hellenistic Palestine
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The political and social history of Palestine from Alexander to Antiochus III (333-187 BCE)
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Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek in the Hellenistic age
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The Diaspora in the Hellenistic age
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The interpenetration of Judaism and Hellenism in the epre-Maccabean period
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The men of the Great Synagogue (circa 400-170 BCE)
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The Pharisaic leadership after the Great Synagogue (170 BCE-135 CE)
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Antiochus IV
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The Hasmonean revolt and the Hasmonean dynasty
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Jewish literature in Hebrew and Aramaic in the Greek era
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Jewish-Greek literature of the Greek period
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The apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the Hellenistic period
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The book of Daniel
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The matrix of apocalyptic
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The Septuagint and its Hebrew text
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The Targumim
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The Samaritans
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The growth of anti-Judaism or the Greek attitude towards Jews
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521219297
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521219297
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CHOL9780521219297
