The Jews in the Greek Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jews in the Greek Age write by Elias Joseph Bickerman. This book was released on 1988. The Jews in the Greek Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of the Jews in the Greek age, charting issues of stability and change in Jewish society during a period that ranges from the conquest of Palestine by Alexander the Great in the fourth century, until approximately 175 B.C.E. and the revolt of the Maccabees.
The Jews in the Greek Age
The Jews in the Greek Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jews in the Greek Age write by Elias J. Bickerman. This book was released on 2012. The Jews in the Greek Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature
The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature write by Bezalel Bar-Kochva. This book was released on 2016-02-09. The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This landmark contribution to ongoing debates about perceptions of the Jews in antiquity examines the attitudes of Greek writers of the Hellenistic period toward the Jewish people. Among the leading Greek intellectuals who devoted special attention to the Jews were Theophrastus (the successor of Aristotle), Hecataeus of Abdera (the father of "scientific" ethnography), and Apollonius Molon (probably the greatest rhetorician of the Hellenistic world). Bezalel Bar-Kochva examines the references of these writers and others to the Jews in light of their literary output and personal background; their religious, social, and political views; their literary and stylistic methods; ethnographic stereotypes current at the time; and more.
Was Achilles a Jew?
Was Achilles a Jew? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Was Achilles a Jew? write by Larry S. Milner. This book was released on 2008-01-14. Was Achilles a Jew? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Significant interest has always existed about the origin of Classic Greek culture, but despite the long-standing attention, scholars continue to disagree on where this amazing civilization got its start. The Mycenaeans were the earliest Greek-speaking people on the mainland, but the country entered a Dark Age following the end of the Trojan War, and in the Archaic Age which followed, the fundamentals of Greek political and literary thought suddenly emerged, without a clear source of derivation. Historians have sometimes given credit to the Egyptians, Phoenicians, or other Eastern civilizations for this evolution, but no serious consideration has been given to the ancient Hebrews, despite the fact that the Exodus from Egypt took place during the Late Bronze Age, when Mycenae was at its peak of influence in the Mediterranean Basin. In Was Achilles a Jew? Hebraic Origins to Greek Civilization, Dr. Larry Milner argues that a group of Hebrews devoted to the traditions of the patriarchs left the Exodus following the parricidal reprisals instituted by Moses during the modification of Judaism into a monotheistic faith, and migrated to Mycenae, where they became immersed into Mycenaean culture, taking part in the Trojan War. His analysis provides the most persuasive argument to date about where the Eastern influence in Greece was generated.
The Sibylline Oracles
The Sibylline Oracles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sibylline Oracles write by Milton S. Terry. This book was released on 2012. The Sibylline Oracles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of almost 10.000 words about the oracles in religion * an interactive table-of-contents * perfect formatting for electronic reading devices THE Sibyls occupy a conspicuous place in the traditions and history of ancient Greece and Rome. Their fame was spread abroad long before the beginning of the Christian era. Heraclitus of Ephesus, five centuries before Christ, compared himself to the Sibyl "who, speaking with inspired mouth, without a smile, without ornament, and without perfume, penetrates through centuries by the power of the gods." The ancient traditions vary in reporting the number and the names of these weird prophetesses, and much of what has been handed down to us is legendary. But whatever opinion one may hold respecting the various legends, there can be little doubt that a collection of Sibylline Oracles was at one time preserved at Rome. There are, moreover, various oracles, purporting to have been written by ancient Sibyls, found in the writings of Pausanias, Plutarch, Livy, and in other Greek and Latin authors. Whether any of these citations formed a portion of the Sibylline books once kept in Rome we cannot now determine; but the Roman capitol was destroyed by fire in the time of Sulla (B. C. 84), and again in the time of Vespasian (A. D. 69), and whatever books were at those dates kept therein doubtless perished in the flames. It is said by some of the ancients that a subsequent collection of oracles was made, but, if so, there is now no certainty that any fragments of them remain.
