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Die Ursprache
Peter Franz Joseph Müller
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R1,322
Discovery Miles 13 220
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Hellenistic Egypt was the setting for perhaps the first Jewish
Golden Age, a time "golden" in Jewish memory as an era of vibrant
cultural interaction between the Jews and their gentile hosts. This
is the story of the adventures and misadventures of the people of
Israel in the land of Egypt the years shrouded in the mists of
biblical history under the Pharaohs; the strange intermezzo of the
Jewish mercenary detachment on the island of Elephantine on the
upper Nile; the apogee of Jewish culture under Ptolemies; and
finally, the Jewish community's rapid decline and catastrophic
disappearance under Roman rule. Joseph Meleze Modrzejewski uses
scientific analysis to illuminate the reality underlying our image
of the past. The biblical accounts and Jewish and pagan literary
texts are juxtaposed with discoveries of a century of
archaeological and papyrological research that has unearthed the
edicts of emperors as well as the humble correspondence of common
people. In a tantalizing epilogue, Modrzejewski probes a turning
point in Western civilization: the brief but crucial episode when
budding Christianity and the Alexandrian Jews parted company."
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Die Ursprache
Peter Franz Joseph Müller
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R1,151
Discovery Miles 11 510
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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