The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature : The Hellenistic Period /

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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 Ari...

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Autor principal: Bar-Kochva, Bezalel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Litterature grecque hellenistique > Histoire et critique.
Juifs dans la litterature.
Jews in literature.
Greek literature, Hellenistic.
RELIGION > Antiquities & Archaeology.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Greek literature, Hellenistic > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (632 pages).
ISBN:9780520943636

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