Judaism and Hellenism: Studies in their Encounter in Palestine during the Early Hellenistic PeriodMartin Hengel gathers an encyclopedic amount of material, ancient and modern, to present an exhaustive survey of the early course of Hellenistic civilization as it related to developing Judaism. The result is a highly readable account of a largely unfamiliar world which is indispensable for those interested in Judaism and the birth of Christianity alike. An extensive section of notes and bibliography is included. |
Contents
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Greek Education and Culture and Palestinian Judaism | 65 |
The development of the Jewish school | 78 |
PalestinianJewish history writing in the Hellenistic | 99 |
The Interpretatio Graeca of Judaism and the Hellenistic | 255 |
The Identification of the God of Judaism with Greek Con | 261 |
The Hellenistic Reform Attempt in Jerusalem and its Failure | 267 |
the Acra at the beginning of 167 BC | 277 |
ideology of apostasy | 292 |
The Reform Attempt its Failure and the Far | 303 |
Summary and Conclusion | 310 |
Notes to Introduction I | 3 |
The Encounter and Conflict between Palestinian Judaism | 107 |
Koheleth and the Beginning of the Crisis in Jewish Religion | 115 |
Koheleth and Solomon | 129 |
The Encounter between Jewish and Hellenistic Thought | 153 |
f Wisdom and Torah in Pharisaic and Rabbinic Judaism | 169 |
The Hasidim and the First Climax of Jewish Apocalyptic | 175 |
Higher wisdom through revelation as a character | 210 |
Early Essenism | 218 |
Hellenistic reform | 224 |
Notes to Chapter II Hellenism in Palestine as a Cultural Force and | 42 |
Notes to Chapter III The Encounter and Conflict between Palestinian | 72 |
Notes to Chapter IV The Interpretatio Graeca of Judaism and | 169 |
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