FROM EZRA TO THE LAST OF THE MACCABEES

From Ezra to the Last of the Maccabees

BICKERMAN, ELIAS

History

Franklin Classics

One of our century's greatest authorities on the ancient world gives us here a vivid account of the Jewish people from the conquest of Palestine by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.E. to the revolt of the Maccabees. It is a rich story of Jewish social, economic, and intellectual life and of the relations between the Jewish community and the Hellenistic rulers and colonizers of Palestine—a historical narrative told with consummate skill.  Bickerman portrays Jewish life in the context of a broader picture of the Near East and traces the interaction between the Jewish and Greek worlds throughout this period. He reconstructs the evidence concerning social and political structures; the economy of Hellenistic Jerusalem and Judea; Greek officials, merchants, and entrepreneurs as well as full-scale Greek colonies in Palestine; the impact of Greek language and culture among Jews and the translation of Jewish Scriptures into Greek; Jewish literature, learning, and law; and the diaspora in the Hellenistic period. He deploys his profound knowledge gracefully, weaving archaeological finds, literary traditions, the political and economic record, and fertile insights into an abundant and lively history.  This first full study of the pre-Maccabean interaction between the Greek and Jewish cultures will be welcomed by historians and specialists in Judaic studies. But any reader interested in the ancient Mediterranean world will find it to be filled with pleasures and discoveries.

The Jews in the Greek Age

Ancient Civilizations

Harvard University Press

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From Ezra to the Last of the Maccabees (Foundations of Post-Biblical Judaism)

Schocken Books

The author is interested in the books of the Bible which were written in the age of Greek intellectual dominance. In the present work he tries to understand Jonah, Daniel, Koheleth [Ecclesiastes], and Esther as witnesses to the mentality of men of that period in the ancient Near East." To refer the books of the Bible to the conditions of their origin is a more complicated and in a sense a more dangerous task than to do the same thing for, say, Homer, because the biblical books have for over two thousand years been the subject of deeply committed interpretation by Jewish and Christian religious thinkers of varying views. It is one of the merits of Dr. Bickerman's book that he pays attention to these later interpretations, not only to dismiss them or to be witty at their expense (though he sometimes does both these things), but also to illuminate changes of viewpoint and to show how different historical circumstances produce different ways of reading.

Four Strange Books of the Bible: Jonah, Daniel, Koheleth, Esther

Religion & Spirituality

Schocken

Legare Street Press

Nabu Press

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FROM EZRA TO THE LAST OF THE MACCABEES - Scholar's Choice Edition

Scholar's Choice

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Andesite Press

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FROM EZRA TO THE LAST OF THE MACCABEES

The Jews in the Greek Age

From Ezra to the Last of the Maccabees (Foundations of Post-Biblical Judaism)

Four Strange Books of the Bible: Jonah, Daniel, Koheleth, Esther

From Ezra to the Last of the Maccabees

From Ezra to the Last of the Maccabees

FROM EZRA TO THE LAST OF THE MACCABEES

FROM EZRA TO THE LAST OF THE MACCABEES - Scholar's Choice Edition

FROM EZRA TO THE LAST OF THE MACCABEES

FROM EZRA TO THE LAST OF THE MACCABEES