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Hellenismus und Judentum: vier Studien zu Daniel 7 und zur Religionsnot unter Antiochus IV
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ISBN: 3727813210 9783727813214 Year: 2000 Volume: 178 Publisher: Freiburg: Universitätsverlag,

Imperialism and Jewish society, 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E
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ISBN: 0691088500 9780691088501 0691117810 128208710X 1400824850 9786612087103 9781282087101 9781400824854 Year: 2001 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Seth Schwartz reaches some startling conclusions--foremost among them that the Christianization of the Roman Empire generated the most fundamental features of medieval and modern Jewish life. Schwartz begins by arguing that the distinctiveness of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and early Roman periods was the product of generally prevailing imperial tolerance. From around 70 C.E. to the mid-fourth century, with failed revolts and the alluring cultural norms of the High Roman Empire, Judaism all but disintegrated. However, late in the Roman Empire, the Christianized state played a decisive role in ''re-Judaizing'' the Jews. The state gradually excluded them from society while supporting their leaders and recognizing their local communities. It was thus in Late Antiquity that the synagogue-centered community became prevalent among the Jews, that there re-emerged a distinctively Jewish art and literature--laying the foundations for Judaism as we know it today. Through masterful scholarship set in rich detail, this book challenges traditional views rooted in romantic notions about Jewish fortitude. Integrating material relics and literature while setting the Jews in their eastern Mediterranean context, it addresses the complex and varied consequences of imperialism on this vast period of Jewish history more ambitiously than ever before. Imperialism in Jewish Society will be widely read and much debated.

Between Alexandria and Jerusalem
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ISBN: 1280868139 9786610868131 1429453117 1433704951 9781429453110 9789004144026 9004144021 9004144021 9789047407546 Year: 2005 Publisher: Leiden;Boston BRILL

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Between Alexandria and Jerusalem examines the dynamics of Hellenistic and Jewish cultures. It begins by looking at the changes in mentality as reflected in papyri of Roman Egypt, the birth of a qualified audience looking for teachers and preachers and requiring a new culture. This same phenomenon emerged in Rabbinic society. Rabbinic literature was different not only from the Bible, but from Alexandrian exegesis as well. However, Alexandrian exegesis paved the way for rabbinic Midrash. 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.

Japheth in the Tents of Shem : studies on Jewish Hellenism in Antiquity
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ISBN: 9042911379 9789042911376 Year: 2002 Volume: 32 Publisher: Leuven: Peeters,


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Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles
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ISSN: 13842161 ISBN: 9789004424340 9004424342 9789004426078 9004426078 Year: 2020 Volume: 194 Publisher: Leiden;Boston BRILL

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In Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline oracles, Ashley L. Bacchi reclaims the importance of the Sibyl as a female voice of prophecy and reveals new layers of intertextual references that address political, cultural, and religious dialogue in second-century Ptolemaic Egypt. This investigation stands apart from prior examinations by reorienting the discussion around the desirability of the pseudonym to an issue of gender. It questions the impact of identifying the author's message with a female prophetic figure and challenges the previous identification of paraphrased Greek oracles and their function within the text. Verses previously seen as anomalous are transferred from the role of Greek subterfuge of Jewish identity to offering nuanced support of monotheistic themes.

Between Alexandria and Jerusalem : the dynamic of Jewish and Hellenistic culture
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ISSN: 15715000 ISBN: 9004144021 9786610868131 1429453117 1280868139 1433704951 9789004144026 Year: 2005 Volume: 21 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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The book exhibits the dynamics of Jewish culture from Alexandrian exegesis to the Talmud in the framework of literary revolutions. These revolutions followed the crisis of tradition and the appearance of 'mass society' in Late Antiquity.


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Translation and survival : the Greek Bible of the ancient Jewish Diaspora
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ISBN: 9780199558674 0199558671 0199695008 9780199695003 1282268333 9786612268335 0191567914 0191720895 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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The translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek was the first major translation in Western culture. Its significance was far-reaching but largely forgotten. Without a Greek Bible, European history would have been entirely different - no Western Jewish diaspora and no Christianity. Translation and Survival is a radical new study of the ancient creators and receivers of the translations and of their impact. The Greek Bible sustained Jews who spoke Greek and made the survivalof the first Jewish diaspora possible: indeed, the translators invented the term 'diaspora'. The translations were a tool fo

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