The image of the Jews in Greek literature :: the Hellenistic Period /

This landmark contribution to ongoing debates about perceptions of the Jews in antiquity examines the attitudes of Greek writers of the Hellenistic period toward the Jewish people. Among the leading Greek intellectuals who devoted special attention to the Jews were Theophrastus (the successor of Ari...

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1. Verfasser: Bar-Kochva, Bezalel
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
Schriftenreihe:S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Hellenistic culture and society ; 51.
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Zusammenfassung:This landmark contribution to ongoing debates about perceptions of the Jews in antiquity examines the attitudes of Greek writers of the Hellenistic period toward the Jewish people. Among the leading Greek intellectuals who devoted special attention to the Jews were Theophrastus (the successor of Aristotle), Hecataeus of Abdera (the father of "scientific" ethnography), and Apollonius Molon (probably the greatest rhetorician of the Hellenistic world). Bezalel Bar-Kochva examines the references of these writers and others to the Jews in light of their literary output and personal background; thei.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 606 p.).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (p. 543-576) and index.
ISBN:9780520943636
0520943635
1282463209
9781282463202
9786612463204
6612463201

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