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Author Gruen, Erich S., author.

Title Constructs of identity in Hellenistic Judaism : essays on early Jewish literature and history / Erich S. Gruen.

Publication Info. Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 574 pages)
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Series Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies, 1865-1666 ; volume 29
Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies ; v. 29.
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
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 18, 2016).
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.
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.
Language In English.
Subject Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D.
Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Jews -- Identity -- To 1500.
Jewish literature -- History and criticism.
Juifs -- Histoire -- 586 av. J.-C.-70.
Judaïsme -- Histoire -- 586 av. J.-C.-210 (Période postexilique)
Juifs -- Identité -- Jusqu'à 1500.
Littérature juive -- Histoire et critique.
Religion -- History.
Jewish literature
Jews
Jews -- Identity
Judaism -- Post-exilic period (Judaism)
Judentum
Hellenistisch-jüdische Literatur
Frühjudentum
Hellenismus
Chronological Term To 1500
Indexed Term Hellenism.
Identity.
Judaism.
representations.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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 bk.)
3110375559 (electronic bk.)
9783110387193 (electronic bk.)
3110387190 (electronic bk.)
9783110373028 (hardcover alkaline paper)
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