By Lee I. Levine
Generations of students have debated the impact of Greco-Roman tradition on Jewish society and the measure of its effect on Jewish fabric tradition and non secular perform in Palestine and the Diaspora of antiquity. Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity examines this phenomenon from the aftermath of Alexander�s conquest to the Byzantine period, delivering a balanced view of the literary, epigraphical, and archeological proof testifying to the method of Hellenization in Jewish lifestyles and its effect on numerous features of Judaism as we all know it today.
Lee Levine methods this extensive topic in 3 essays, each one targeting varied matters in Jewish tradition: Jerusalem on the finish of the second one Temple interval, rabbinic culture, and the traditional synagogue. together with his finished and thorough wisdom of the elaborate dynamics of the Jewish and Greco-Roman societies, the writer demonstrates the complexities of Hellenization and its function in shaping many features of Jewish life�economic, social, political, cultural, and spiritual. He argues opposed to oversimplification and encourages a extra nuanced view, wherein the Jews of antiquity survived and prospered, regardless of the social and political upheavals of this period, rising as perpetuators in their personal Jewish traditions whereas open to alter from the skin world.
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