The Jews in the Greek Age

Elias J. Bickerman

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Harvard Uni.Press Academi
01 September 1990

History; Jewish studies

One of our century's greatest authorities on the ancient world gives us here a vivid account of the Jewish people from the conquest of Palestine by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE to the revolt of the Maccabees. It is a rich story of Jewish social, economic, and intellectual life and of the relations between the Jewish community and the Hellenistic rulers and colonizers of Palestine-a historical narrative told with consummate skill.

Elias Bickerman portrays Jewish life in the context of a broader picture of the Near East and traces the interaction between the Jewish and Greek worlds throughout this period. He reconstructs the evidence concerning social and political structures; the economy of Hellenistic Jerusalem and Judea; Greek officials, merchants, and entrepreneurs as well as full-scale Greek colonies in Palestine; the impact of Greek language and culture among Jews and the translation of Jewish Scriptures into Greek; Jewish literature, learning, and law; and the diaspora in the Hellenistic period. He deploys his profound knowledge gracefully, weaving archaeological finds, literary traditions, the political and economic record, and fertile insights into an abundant and lively history.

This first full study of the pre-Maccabean interaction between the Greek and Jewish cultures will be welcomed by historians and specialists in Judaic studies. But any reader interested in the ancient Mediterranean world will find it to be filled with pleasures and discoveries.

By: Elias J. Bickerman
Imprint: Harvard Uni.Press Academi
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780674474918
ISBN 10: 0674474910
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 September 1990
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

PART 1: BEFORE AND AFTER ALEXANDER 1. Alexander and Jerusalem 2. Alexander and Samaria 3. The Greeks Discover the Jews 4. The Jews Discover the Greeks 5. Jerusalem and Judea 6. The Law of the Jews 7. The Jewish Periphery 8. The Dispersion 9. Aramaic Literature PART 2: THE THIRD CENTURY 10. Ptolemaic Palestine 11. The Dispersion under the Ptolemaic 12. The Eastern Dispersion 13. The Greek Torah 14. The End of the Kingdom of the South 15. The Kingdom of the North PART 3: PERMANENCE AND INNOVATION 16. The Temple 17. Priests and Levites 18. Economic Life 19. Scribes and Sages 20. The Midrash 21. The New Jurisprudence 22. New Literature 23. New Values in the Dispersion 24. Old and New in Religion 25. Faith and History 26. A retrospect Bibliographical Note Bibliography Index

Elias Bickerman was Professor of Ancient History at Columbia University and Research Fellow at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

Reviews for The Jews in the Greek Age

The last posthumous work of one of the greatest of all scholars of Judaism in Graeco-Roman antiquity...Note the power and brilliance, as well as the (as ever) bold and controversial character of its representation of Judaism and Jewish history in the period between Alexander and the Maccabees.--Fergus Millar Journal of Jewish Studies