Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition

by: Gruen, E.S.

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 In the wake of Alexander the Great's triumphant successes, Greeks and Macedonians came as conquerors and settled as ruling classes in the lands of the eastern Mediterranean. Jews endured a subordinate status politically and militarily, a minor nation amid the powers of the Hellenistic world. Erich Gruen's work, however, highlights Jewish creativity, ingenuity, and inventiveness, as the Jews engaged actively with the traditions of Hellas, adapting genres and transforming legends to articulate their own legacy in modes congenial to a Hellenistic setting. Drawing on a wide and diverse array of texts composed in Greek by Jews over an extended period of time, Gruen explores works by Jewish historians, epic poets, tragic dramatists, writers of romances and novels, exegetes, philosophers, apocalyptic visionaries, and composers of fanciful fables - not to mention pseudonymous forgers and fabricators. In these fictive creations, Jewish writers reinvented their own past, offering us vital insights into Jewish self-perception.

Hellenism and the Hasmonaeans
The use and abuse of the Exodus story
The Hellenistic images of Joseph
Scriptural stories in new guise
Embellishments and inventions
Kings and Jews
Pride and precedence

Subjects:
586 B.C.-210 A.D
Civilization history
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Culturele invloeden
Greek World
Greek literature Jewish authors
Greek literature Jewish authors History and criticism
HISTORY / Ancient / General
Hellenism
Hellenisme
Hellénisme
History
Jews history
Joden
Jodendom
Judaism
Judaism Apologetic works
Judaism Apologetic works History and criticism
Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
Judaism Post-exilic period (Judaism)
Judaïsme 586 av. J.-C.-210 (Période postexilique)
Judaïsme Histoire 586 av. J.-C.-210 (Période postexilique)
Judaïsme Ouvrages apologétiques Histoire et critique
Literature greek
Littérature grecque Auteurs juifs Histoire et critique
Littérature grecque hellénistique Auteurs juifs Histoire et critique
Philosophy & Religion
RELIGION Judaism History
Religion

Series:
Hellenistic culture and society, 30

Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition

by: Gruen, E.S.

• ISBN-13: 9780520210523 / 978-0-520-21052-3
• ISBN-03: 0520210522 / 0-520-21052-2
• University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998

Price: 49,00 EURO

1 copy in stock