The image of the Jews in Greek literature : the Hellenistic Period /
Bar-Kochva, Bezalel.
The image of the Jews in Greek literature : the Hellenistic Period / Bezalel Bar-Kochva. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (xiv, 606 p.). - The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies Hellenistic culture and society ; 51 . - S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies. Hellenistic culture and society ; 51. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 543-576) and index.
Introduction -- Part I. From Alexander and the Successors to the Religious Persecutions of Antiochus Epiphanes (333-168 B.C.E.) -- Theophrastus on Jewish Sacrificial Practices and the Jews as a Community of Philosophers -- Aristotle, the Learned Jew, and the Indian Kalanoi in Clearchus -- The Jewish Ethnography by Hecataeus of Abdera -- Megasthenes on the "Physics" of the Greeks, Brahmans and the Jews -- Hermippus of Smyrna on Pythagoras, the Jews, and the Thracian -- The Diachronic Libels and Accusations (A): Mnaseas of Patara and the Origins and Developments of the Ass Libel -- Part II. The Hasmonaean Period: From the Jewish Revolt to the Roman Conquest (167-63 B.C.E.) -- The Diachronic Libels and Accusations (B): The Seleucid Court Historian and the Blood Libel -- Agatharchides of Cnidus on the Sabbath as a Superstition -- The Diachronic Libels and Accusations (C): Lysimachus of Alexandria and the Egyptian Hostile Accounts of the Exodus -- Posidonius of Apamea (A): The Man and his Writings -- Posidonius of Apamea (B): The Jewish Ethnography in Strabo's Geographica; Mosaic Judaism versus Second Temple Judaism -- Posidonius of Apamea (C): Josephus on the Siege of Jerusalem by Antiochus VII Sidetes (132/1 B.C.E.); Antiochus the Pious and Hyrcanus the Tyrant -- Posidonius of Apamea (D): The Anti-Jewish Libels and Accusations in Diodorus and Apion -- The Geographical Description of Jerusalem by Timochares. the Siege, and the Libels -- The Anti-Jewish Ethnographic Treatise by Apollonius Molon -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The God of Moses in Strabo / Ivor Ludlam
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.
English.
9780520943636 ebook 0520943635 1282463209 9781282463202 9786612463204 6612463201
10.1525/9780520943636 doi
22573/cttsxnzh JSTOR
2021696760
GBA919582 bnb
014915228 Uk
Jews in literature.
Greek literature, Hellenistic--History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Ancient & Classical.
RELIGION--Antiquities & Archaeology.
Greek literature, Hellenistic.
Jews in literature.
Juifs dans la littérature.
Littérature grecque hellénistique--Histoire et critique.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN56.3.J4
880.9/3529924
The image of the Jews in Greek literature : the Hellenistic Period / Bezalel Bar-Kochva. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (xiv, 606 p.). - The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies Hellenistic culture and society ; 51 . - S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies. Hellenistic culture and society ; 51. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 543-576) and index.
Introduction -- Part I. From Alexander and the Successors to the Religious Persecutions of Antiochus Epiphanes (333-168 B.C.E.) -- Theophrastus on Jewish Sacrificial Practices and the Jews as a Community of Philosophers -- Aristotle, the Learned Jew, and the Indian Kalanoi in Clearchus -- The Jewish Ethnography by Hecataeus of Abdera -- Megasthenes on the "Physics" of the Greeks, Brahmans and the Jews -- Hermippus of Smyrna on Pythagoras, the Jews, and the Thracian -- The Diachronic Libels and Accusations (A): Mnaseas of Patara and the Origins and Developments of the Ass Libel -- Part II. The Hasmonaean Period: From the Jewish Revolt to the Roman Conquest (167-63 B.C.E.) -- The Diachronic Libels and Accusations (B): The Seleucid Court Historian and the Blood Libel -- Agatharchides of Cnidus on the Sabbath as a Superstition -- The Diachronic Libels and Accusations (C): Lysimachus of Alexandria and the Egyptian Hostile Accounts of the Exodus -- Posidonius of Apamea (A): The Man and his Writings -- Posidonius of Apamea (B): The Jewish Ethnography in Strabo's Geographica; Mosaic Judaism versus Second Temple Judaism -- Posidonius of Apamea (C): Josephus on the Siege of Jerusalem by Antiochus VII Sidetes (132/1 B.C.E.); Antiochus the Pious and Hyrcanus the Tyrant -- Posidonius of Apamea (D): The Anti-Jewish Libels and Accusations in Diodorus and Apion -- The Geographical Description of Jerusalem by Timochares. the Siege, and the Libels -- The Anti-Jewish Ethnographic Treatise by Apollonius Molon -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The God of Moses in Strabo / Ivor Ludlam
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.
English.
9780520943636 ebook 0520943635 1282463209 9781282463202 9786612463204 6612463201
10.1525/9780520943636 doi
22573/cttsxnzh JSTOR
2021696760
GBA919582 bnb
014915228 Uk
Jews in literature.
Greek literature, Hellenistic--History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Ancient & Classical.
RELIGION--Antiquities & Archaeology.
Greek literature, Hellenistic.
Jews in literature.
Juifs dans la littérature.
Littérature grecque hellénistique--Histoire et critique.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN56.3.J4
880.9/3529924