Jews in the Hellenistic World: Volume 1, Part 1: Josephus, by John R. Bartlett

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By John R. Bartlett

This publication goals to introduce the paintings of Hellenistic Jewish writers of the interval 2 hundred BC to advert 2 hundred. 4 particularly are studied. The authors of the Letter of Aristeas and the Sibylline Oracles got here from second-century BC Egypt. Eupolemus wrote most likely in Jerusalem even as. Josephus, a clergyman from Judaea, wrote in Rome within the past due first century advert. utilizing Greek, now not Hebrew or Aramaic, and aware of the location of Jews within the Graeco-Roman global, they needed to illustrate that their cultural and spiritual background stood comparability with the Graeco-Roman culture and that Jews have been neither so philosophically naive nor so politically challenging as they have been frequently presupposed to be. a gap bankruptcy describing the placement of Jews within the Hellenistic international is via chosen passages, all newly translated, with introductory essays and remark. the gathering makes on hand to scholars a lot fabric hitherto now not simply accessible.

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