Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004521889)

In the Hellenistic period, Jews participated in the imagination of a cosmopolitan world and they developed their own complex cultural forms. In this panoramic and multifaceted book, René Bloch shows that the ancient Jewish diaspora is an integral part of what we understand as Hellenism and argues that Jewish Hellenism epitomizes Hellenism at large. Relying on Greek, Latin and Hebrew sources, the fifteen papers collected in this volume trace the evidence of ancient Jews through meticulous studies of ruins, literature, myth and modern reception taking the reader on a journey from Philo's Alexandria to a Roman bust in a Copenhagen museum

Author: René Bloch
ISBN-10: 9004521887
ISBN-13: 9789004521889
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2022
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover