Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: October 14, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 692
ISBN-13: 9780691029276
Subjects: Christian theology; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Jewish studies; Religion; History Of Jews; Judaism; History - General History; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; Europe; Antiquities & Archaeology; History; Jewish - Ancient; Classics; Religion / History
First sentence: It always comes as a surprise-perhaps even a shock-that the two peoples who have most profoundly influenced Western civilization, the Jews and the Greeks, seem to have been just about unaware of each other, at least in a cultural sense, until the fifth century B.C.E. at the very earliest.