The image of the Jews in Greek literature the Hellenistic Period / Bezalel Bar-Kochva.
| Author/creator | Bar-Kochva, Bezalel |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, |
| Description | 1 online resource (xiv, 606 p.) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies Hellenistic culture and society ; 51 S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies. Hellenistic culture and society ; 51. |
| Contents | Introduction -- Part I. From Alexander and the Successors to the Religious Persecutions of Antiochus Epiphanes (333-168 B.C.E.) -- Theophrastus on Jewish Sacrificial Practices and the Jews as a Community of Philosophers -- Aristotle, the Learned Jew, and the Indian Kalanoi in Clearchus -- The Jewish Ethnography by Hecataeus of Abdera -- Megasthenes on the "Physics" of the Greeks, Brahmans and the Jews -- Hermippus of Smyrna on Pythagoras, the Jews, and the Thracian -- The Diachronic Libels and Accusations (A): Mnaseas of Patara and the Origins and Developments of the Ass Libel -- Part II. The Hasmonaean Period: From the Jewish Revolt to the Roman Conquest (167-63 B.C.E.) -- The Diachronic Libels and Accusations (B): The Seleucid Court Historian and the Blood Libel -- Agatharchides of Cnidus on the Sabbath as a Superstition -- The Diachronic Libels and Accusations (C): Lysimachus of Alexandria and the Egyptian Hostile Accounts of the Exodus -- Posidonius of Apamea (A): The Man and his Writings -- Posidonius of Apamea (B): The Jewish Ethnography in Strabo's Geographica; Mosaic Judaism versus Second Temple Judaism -- Posidonius of Apamea (C): Josephus on the Siege of Jerusalem by Antiochus VII Sidetes (132/1 B.C.E.); Antiochus the Pious and Hyrcanus the Tyrant -- Posidonius of Apamea (D): The Anti-Jewish Libels and Accusations in Diodorus and Apion -- The Geographical Description of Jerusalem by Timochares. the Siege, and the Libels -- The Anti-Jewish Ethnographic Treatise by Apollonius Molon -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The God of Moses in Strabo / Ivor Ludlam |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 543-576) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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| Issued in other form | Print version: The image of the Jews in Greek literature Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010. 9780520253360 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021696760 |
| ISBN | 9780520943636 ebook |
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