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March 26, 2017 | Judaism

By John R. Bartlett

This booklet goals to introduce the paintings of Hellenistic Jewish writers of the interval two hundred BC to advert two hundred. 4 particularly are studied. The authors of the Letter of Aristeas and the Sibylline Oracles got here from second-century BC Egypt. Eupolemus wrote most likely in Jerusalem while. Josephus, a clergyman from Judaea, wrote in Rome within the overdue first century advert. utilizing Greek, no longer Hebrew or Aramaic, and aware of the location of Jews within the Graeco-Roman global, they needed to illustrate that their cultural and non secular history stood comparability with the Graeco-Roman culture and that Jews have been neither so philosophically naive nor so politically tricky as they have been usually purported to be. a gap bankruptcy describing the placement of Jews within the Hellenistic global is by means of chosen passages, all newly translated, with introductory essays and remark. the gathering makes on hand to scholars a lot fabric hitherto now not simply accessible.

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