Constructs of identity in Hellenistic Judaism essays on early Jewish literature and history
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 conferen...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] :
De Gruyter
2016
2016. |
| Colección: | Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies ;
Volume 29. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424536406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- 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
- 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
