| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 574 pages). |
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text file PDF |
| Series |
Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies,
1865-1666 ;
volume 29
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Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies ; v. 29.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D.
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Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
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Jews -- Identity -- To 1500.
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Jews -- Identity. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Jewish literature -- History and criticism.
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Jewish literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Essays on early Jewish literature and history |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Gruen, Erich S. Constructs of identity in Hellenistic Judaism. Boston : De Gruyter, [2016] 9783110373028 (DLC) 2016041931 |
| ISBN |
9783110375558 (electronic book) |
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3110375559 (electronic book) |
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9783110387193 (electronic book) |
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3110387190 (electronic book) |
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9783110373028 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9783110375558 |
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