Book Details
Orange Code:95625
Paperback:746 pages
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1. The archeology of Hellenistic Palestine2. The political and social history of Palestine from Alexander to Antiochus III (333-187 B.C.E.)3. Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek in the Hellenistic age4. The Diaspora in the Hellenistic age5. The interpenetration of Judaism and Hellenism in the pre-Maccabean period6. The men of the Great Synagogue {circa 400—170 B.C.E.)7. The Pharisaic leadership after the Great Synagogue8. Antiochus IV9. The Hasmonean revolt and the Hasmonean dynasty10. Jewish literature in Hebrew and Aramaic in the Greek era11. Jewish—Greek literature of the Greek period12. The apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the Hellenistic period13. The book of Daniel14. The matrix of apocalyptic15. The Septuagint and its Hebrew text16. The Targumim17. The Samaritans18. The growth of anti-Judaism or the Greek attitude towards Jews
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The second of four volumes covering the history of Judaism from 540 BCE to 250 CE, this book deals with the encounter of Judaism with the Hellenistic culture spread throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond by Alexander the Great and his successors. Drawing upon recent scholarship in archaeology, history and scriptures, the contributors describe the religious, social and cultural rejection and adoption of Hellenism by Judaism. Illustrated with
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