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The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism
Essays on Early Jewish Literature and History
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English
Published/Copyright:
2016
About this book
This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one 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. His many articles on this subject have, however, appeared mostly in conference volumes and Festschriften, and have therefore not had wide circulation. By putting them together in a single work, this will bring the essays to the attention of a much broader scholarly readership and make them more readily available to students in the fields of ancient history and early Judaism. The pieces are quite varied, but develop a number of connected and related themes: Jewish identity in the pagan world, the literary representations by Jews and pagans of one another, the interconnections of Hellenism and Judaism, and the Jewish experience under Hellenistic monarchies and the Roman empire.
Author / Editor information
Erich S. Gruen, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Reviews
"Den Hg.n ist zu danken, dass sie die vorliegende Sammlung von Beiträgen, die Erich S. Gruen seit 1993 veröffentlicht hat, in die Reihe Deuterocanonicol and Cognate Literature Studies aufgenommen haben. Damit ist zu hoffen, dass der Band eine möglichst breite Leserschaft finden wird. [...] Der Vf. schafft es, einen neuen Blick auf bekannte Quellen zu werfen, aber auch eher unbekannte Quellen zu erschließen. Aus den einzelnen, oftmals an (aus theologischer Sicht) entlegenen Orten veröffentlichten Beiträgen wird durch die Zusammenstellung ein faszinierendes Werk, dessen Lektüre zu fesseln vermag [...] Dieses Werk darf in keiner wissenschaftlichen theologischen Bibliothek fehlen."
Hans Förster in: Theologische Revuew, Jahrgang 113 (2017), Nr. 6, S. 465-466
Hans Förster in: Theologische Revuew, Jahrgang 113 (2017), Nr. 6, S. 465-466
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Frontmatter
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Overview
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Preface
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First Publications of Essays
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Introduction
1 - General Reflections
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1. Cultural Fictions and Cultural Identity
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2. Hellenistic Judaism
21 - Jewish Identity and Greco-Roman Culture
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3. Fact and Fiction: Jewish Legends in a Hellenistic Context
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4. Kinship Relations and Jewish Identity
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5. Hellenism and Judaism: Fluid Boundaries
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6. Jews and Greeks as Philosophers: A Challenge to Otherness
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7. The Purported Jewish-Spartan Affiliation
153 - Reciprocal Perspectives
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8. Jewish Perspectives on Greek Culture and Ethnicity
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9. The Use and Abuse of the Exodus Story
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10. Persia Through the Jewish Looking-Glass
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11. Greeks and Jews: Mutual Misperceptions in Josephus’ Contra Apionem
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12. Tacitus and the Defamation of the Jews
265 - Jewish Experience in a Pagan World
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13. Diaspora and Homeland
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14. Was There Judeophobia in Classical Antiquity?
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15. Hellenism and Persecution: Antiochus IV and the Jews
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16. The Origins and Objectives of Onias’ Temple
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17. Herod, Rome, and the Diaspora
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18. Caligula, The Imperial Cult, and Philo’s Legatio
397 - Jewish Literary Constructs
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19. The Letter of Aristeas and the Cultural Context of the Septuagint
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20. The Twisted Tales of Artapanus: Biblical Rewritings as Novelistic Narrative
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21. Jews, Greeks, and Romans in the Third Sibylline Oracle
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22. Subversive Elements in Pseudo-Philo
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23. Jewish Literature and the Second Sophistic
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List of Abbreviations
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Bibliography
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Index of People, Places and Subjects
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Index of Primary Sources
551
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
September 12, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9783110375558
Hardcover published on:
September 12, 2016
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110373028
Paperback published on:
June 11, 2018
Paperback ISBN:
9783110609448
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
14
Main content:
574
eBook ISBN:
9783110375558
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110373028
Paperback ISBN:
9783110609448
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars of Classical Studies, Early Judaism, Religious Studies
Creative Commons
BY-NC-ND 4.0
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