By Erich S. Gruen

ISBN-10: 3110373025

ISBN-13: 9783110373028

This ebook collects twenty formerly released essays and one new one by means of Erich S. Gruen who has written widely at the literature and background of early Judaism and the adventure of the Jews within the Greco-Roman international. His many articles in this topic have, in spite of the fact that, seemed often in convention volumes and Festschriften, and feature accordingly now not had vast movement. by means of placing them jointly in one paintings, this can deliver the essays to the eye of a wider scholarly readership and cause them to extra on hand to scholars within the fields of historic historical past and early Judaism. The items are relatively diversified, yet enhance a few hooked up and similar topics: Jewish id within the pagan global, the literary representations through Jews and pagans of each other, the interconnections of Hellenism and Judaism, and the Jewish adventure lower than Hellenistic monarchies and the Roman empire.



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