Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition (Hellenistic Culture & Society) (Hellenistic Culture and Society)

by ErichSGruen (Author)

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  2002

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  In this work Erich Gruen draws on a variety of literary and historical texts from antiquity to explore a central question: how did the Jews accommodate themselves to the larger cultural world of the Mediterranean while at the same time reasserting the character of their own heritage within it?