The image of the Jews in Greek literature [[electronic resource] ] : the Hellenistic Period / / by Bezalel Bar-Kochva

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781052203321
• Autore: Bar-Kochva Bezalel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-46320-9; 9786612463204; 0-520-94363-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (629 p.)
• Collana: Hellenistic culture and society ; ; 51; The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
• Disciplina: 880.9/3529924
• Soggetti: Jews in literature; Greek literature, Hellenistic - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. From Alexander and the Successors to the Religious Persecutions of Antiochus Epiphanes (333 - 168 b.c.e.) -- Part II. The Hasmonaean Period -- Conclusion -- Appendix. The God of Moses in Strabo -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This landmark contribution to ongoing debates about perceptions of the Jews in antiquity examines the attitudes of Greek writers of the Hellenistic period toward the Jewish people. Among the leading Greek intellectuals who devoted special attention to the Jews were Theophrastus (the successor of Aristotle), Hecataeus of Abdera (the father of "scientific" ethnography), and Apollonius Molon (probably the greatest rhetorician of the Hellenistic world). Bezalel Bar-Kochva examines the references of these writers and others to the Jews in light of their literary output and personal background; their religious, social, and political views; their literary and stylistic methods; ethnographic stereotypes current at the time; and more.