"REMEMBER AMALEK!"
Subtitle: VENGEANCE, ZEALOTRY, AND GROUP DESTRUCTION IN THE BIBLE ACCORDING TO PHILO, PSEUDO-PHILO, AND JOSEPHUS (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College)
Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780878204557
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; Revenge; Judaism; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Religious aspects; Religion; O.T; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament; Bible - Criticism  Interpretation - Old Testament; Revenge in the Bible; General; Amalekites; Bible; Deuteronomy XXV, 17-19
Description: "The divine commandment to exterminate all the men, women, children, and even the animals of the Amalekite nation is what in contemporary terms has been called nothing less than genocide. Louis Feldman helps us to understand how the earliest systematic commentators on the Bible - the Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo in his many essays on biblical themes, the mysterious, still unclassified Pseudo-Philo in his Biblical Antiquities, and the premier Jewish historian and polymath Josephus in his Jewish Antiquities - wrestled with the issues involved in this divine command, especially its provision that an entire people must be punished for all time for the misdeeds of their ancestors."--BOOK JACKET.