Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews
Edition: 1st Ed edition
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
Published: November 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9781565634763
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Judaism; BCE to c 500 CE; History; Civilization; History - General History; Jews; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient - Greece; Jewish - General; 146 B.C.-323 A.D; 586 B.C.-70 A.D; Greece; Hellenism
Description: The encounter between Jews and Greeks marked one of the most revolutionary meetings in the ancient world, for in that encounter politics, economics, culture, and religion changed dramatically. Victor Tcherikover, who devoted his entire scholarly life to the study of the Hellenistic period, offers here a benchmark assessment of that encounter. In this reprinted edition of his most famous work, including a new preface by University of Chicago Professor John J. Collins, Tcherikover uniquely combines "analyses of two of the most intriguing episodes of Jewish history in antiquity: the events that led to the Maccabean rebellion and the struggle for rights in Alexandria in the first century C.E." (from the preface).