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Title: Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition (Hellenistic Culture and Society) by Erich S. Gruen ISBN: 0-520-21052-2 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 31 July, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: An Interesting Look At Hellenistic Jews
Comment: Gruen's 'Heritage and Hellenism' provided a limited, but informative, overview of Jewish literature from the Hellenistic period, focusing on works with historical intent. He opens with an analysis of I & II Maccabees, to see that the Hasmoneans were not opposed to Hellenism per se, but that they in fact utilized Hellenism to further Jewish ends. Gruen goes on to examine the creative adaptations of Biblical materials by Jews to help place them in the context of Hellenistic society and thought, emphasizing their antiquity and superiority in that world. Other materials discussed are from Josephus, and the Jewish Pseudepigrapha, often little-known fragments of historical lore, Greek additions to Daniel and Esther, and the Third Sybilline Oracle. Gruen looks insightfully at his sources, wonders how they were intended and who they were for. He finds elements of satire, humor, consolation, and exhortation in these remote works. Many of the footnotes are in Greek, but can be looked up in translations by chapter and verse numbers. In a few places Greek is used in the text, but this should not dissuade the general reader. Overall, the book is very readable, fair-minded, and potentially helpful to anyone wishing to understand the Judaism of this period in history.
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Title: Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 Bce-117 Ce) (Hellenistic Culture and Society, No 33) by John M. G. Barclay ISBN: 0520218434 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews by Victor Tcherikover ISBN: 1565634764 Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora (The Biblical Resource Series) by John J. Collins ISBN: 0802843727 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: Diaspora: Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans by Erich S. Gruen ISBN: 0674007506 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $42.50 |
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Title: The Jews of Egypt by Joseph Meleze Modrzejewski, Robert Cornman ISBN: 0691015759 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 27 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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