Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture

Essays on the Jewish Encounter with Hellenism and Roman Rule
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14438-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 100, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Reihe: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism

This is a collection of 12 essays, written since 1997, on themes related to Hellenistic (Greek-speaking) Judaism. They include a review essay on recent scholarship on Hellenistic Judaism, a discussion of the question of anti-Semitism in antiquity, a study of the Hellenistic reform in Jerusalem, several studies of individual texts and an essay on the circumstances that led to the first Jewish revolt against Rome.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collins, John J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

John J. Collins, Ph.D. Harvard (1972) is Holmes Professor of Old Testament at Yale Divinity School. He has published extensively on the Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Second Temple Judaism. His books include The Apocalyptic Imagination (Eerdmans, 1998), Between Athens and Jerusalem (Eerdmans, 2000), Seers, Sibyls and Sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism (Brill, 1997).