RT Book
T1 The construct of identity in Hellenistic Judaism: essays on early Jewish literature and history
T2 Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies
JF Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies
A1 Gruen, Erich S. 1935-
LA English
PP Berlin Boston
PB De Gruyter
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/868901296
AB This volume assembles twenty-three essays 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. Twenty-two of the articles have previously been published, and one new one was composed for the volume.  Erich S. Gruen, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
AB 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
AB 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
AB 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
NO Description based upon print version of record
CN PN842
SN 3110373025
K1 Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D
K1 Jews ; History ; 586 B.C.-70 A.D
K1 Electronic books
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