The Jews in the Greek Age

Harvard University Press

1988

xii, 338 p.

Includes index. Bibliography: p. [313]-327

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Before and after Alexander. Alexander and Jerusalem ; Alexander and Samaria ; The Greeks discover the Jews ; The Jews discover the Greeks ; Jerusalem and Judea ; The law of the Jews ; The Jewish periphery ; The dispersion ; Aramaic literature -- The third century. Ptolemaic Palestine ; The dispersion under the Ptolemies ; The eastern dispersion ; The Greek Torah ; The end of the kingdom of the south ; The kingdom of the north -- Permanence and innovation. The temple ; Priests and Levites ; Economic life ; Scribes and sages ; The Midrash ; The new jurisprudence ; New literature ; New values in the dispersion ; Old and new in religion ; Faith and history ; A retrospect

A history of the Jews in the Greek age, charting issues of stability and change in Jewish society during a period that ranges from the conquest of Palestine by Alexander the Great in the fourth century, until approximately 175 B.C.E. and the revolt of the Maccabees

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