Between Alexandria and Jerusalem: the dynamic of Jewish and Hellenistic culture

"The book defies the understanding of culture as a combination of various petrified "patterns," Jewish and Hellenic. It also challenges the idea of separate Jewish cultures. Rather, it endeavors to trace tremendous cultural changes. It was exactly these changes that connected one peri...

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Main Author: Kovel'man, Arkadij B. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden [u.a.] Brill 2005
Series:The Brill reference library of Judaism 21
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"The book defies the understanding of culture as a combination of various petrified "patterns," Jewish and Hellenic. It also challenges the idea of separate Jewish cultures. Rather, it endeavors to trace tremendous cultural changes. It was exactly these changes that connected one period to another, one literature to another, and thus embodied continuity and unity of culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:XIV, 177 S.
ISBN:9004144021