Jewish ethnic identity and relations in Hellenistic Egypt : with walls of iron? / / by Stewart Moore

• Autore: Moore Stewart Alden
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill.; c2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.892/403209014
• Soggetto topico: Jews - Egypt - Identity - History - To 1500; Jews - History - Historiography - 586 B.C.-70 A.D; Judaism - History - Historiography - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D; Jewish learning and scholarship - Egypt - History - To 1500; Jews - Civilization - Greek influences
• Soggetto geografico: Egypt History Historiography 332-30 B.C
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Introduction -- Thicker than Water? A Social-Scientific Approach to Ancient Judean Ethnicity -- The History of Dustbins: Reconstructing Ethnicity from the Papyri -- Reflections on the Nile: Greek Ethnographers and the Egyptians’ Boundary -- From the Mouths of Beasts: Ethnic Identity in Apocalyptic Literature from Egypt -- For the Sake of Mice and Weasels: Ethnic Boundaries and the “Cultural Stuff” in the Letter of Aristeas -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Subject Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Jewish Ethnic Identity and Relations in Hellenistic Egypt , Stewart Moore investigates the foundations of common assumptions about ethnicity. To maintain one’s identity in a strange land, was it always necessary to band tightly together with one’s coethnics? Sociologists and anthropologists who study ethnicity have given us a much wider view of the possible strategies of ethnic maintenance and interaction. The most important facet of Jewish ethnicity in Egypt which emerges from this study is the interaction over the Jewish-Egyptian boundary. Previous scholarship has assumed that this border was a Siegfried Line marked by mutual contempt. Yet Jews, Egyptians and also Greeks interacted in complicated ways in Ptolemaic Egypt, with positive relationships being at least as numerous as negative ones.
• Titolo autorizzato: Jewish ethnic identity and relations in Hellenistic Egypt
• ISBN: 90-04-30308-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826870203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; 171.