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Heritage and Hellenism - The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition (Paperback, Revised)
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Heritage and Hellenism - The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society, 30
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The interaction of Jew and Greek in antiquity intrigues the
imagination. Both civilizations boasted great traditions, their
roots stretching back to legendary ancestors and divine sanction.
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. Hellenic culture, the
culture of the ascendant classes in many of the cities of the Near
East, held widespread attraction and appeal. Jews were certainly
not immune. In this thoroughly researched, lucidly written work,
Erich Gruen draws on a wide variety of literary and historical
texts of the period to explore a central question: How did the Jews
accommodate themselves to the larger cultural world of the
Mediterranean while at the same time reasserting the character of
their own heritage within it? Erich Gruen's work 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 diverse array of
texts composed in Greek by Jews over a broad period of time, Gruen
explores works by Jewish historians, epic poets, tragic dramatists,
writers of romance and novels, exegetes, philosophers, apocalyptic
visionaries, and composers of fanciful fables--not to mention
pseudonymous forgers and fabricators. In these works, Jewish
writers reinvented their own past, offering us the best insights
into Jewish self-perception in that era.
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