The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature: The Hellenistic Period: 51 - Rilegato

Bar-Kochva, Bezalel

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ISBN 10: 0520253361 ISBN 13: 9780520253360

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 2010

Riassunto

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; their religious, social, and political views; their literary and stylistic methods; ethnographic stereotypes current at the time; and more.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Bezalel Bar-Kochva is Jacob M. Alkow Professor of the History of the Jews in the Ancient World at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and the author of Pseudo Hecataeus "On the Jews": Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora (UC Press), among other books.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

A brilliant and systematic analysis of twelve key documents' treatment of the Jews, this book does more than collect and arrange references to Judaism. It selects important intellectual authorities and subjects them to a rigorous examination, which places learning on a wholly new foundation. Bar-Kochva changes the face of the scholarship.” Jacob Neusner, Institute of Advanced Theology, Bard College

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0520253361
• ISBN 13: 9780520253360
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 606