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Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East (Hardcover)
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Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East (Hardcover)
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This collaborative volume examines revolts and resistance to the
successor states, formed after Alexander the Great's conquest of
the Persian empire, as a transregional phenomenon. The editors have
assembled an array of specialists in the study of the various
regions and cultures of the Hellenistic world - Judea, Egypt,
Babylonia, Central Asia, and Asia Minor - in an effort to trace
comparisons and connections between episodes and modes of
resistance. The volume seeks to unite the currently dominant
social-scientific orientation to ancient resistance and revolt with
perspectives, often coming from religious studies, that are more
attentive to local cultural, religious, and moral frameworks. In
re-assessing these frameworks, contributors move beyond
Greek/non-Greek binaries to examine resistance as complex and
entangled: acts and articulations of resistance are not purely
nativistic or 'nationalist', but conditioned by local traditions of
government, historical memories of prior periods, as well as
emergent transregional Hellenistic political and cultural idioms.
Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East is organized into
three parts. The first part investigates the Great Theban Revolt
and the Maccabean Revolt, the central cases for large, organized,
and prolonged military uprisings against the Hellenistic kingdoms.
The second part examines the full gamut of indigenous
self-assertion and resistant action, including theologies of
monarchic inadequacy, patterns of historical periodization and
textual interpretation, and claims to sites of authority. The
volume's final part turns to the more ambiguous assertions of local
autonomy and identity that emerge in the frontier regions that
slipped in and out of the grasp of the great Hellenistic powers.
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