TY - BOOK AU - Bar-Kochva,Bezalel TI - The image of the Jews in Greek literature: the Hellenistic Period T2 - The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies SN - 9780520943636 AV - PN56.3.J4 U1 - 880.9/3529924 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Jews in literature KW - Greek literature, Hellenistic KW - History and criticism KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Ancient & Classical KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION KW - Antiquities & Archaeology KW - fast KW - Juifs dans la littérature KW - Littérature grecque hellénistique KW - Histoire et critique KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=309469 ER -