Jews In The Hellenistic World No 1 Josephus Aristeas The Sibylline Oracles Eupolemus

Author : John Raymond Bartlett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Jews in the Hellenistic World: [no.] 1. Josephus, Aristeas, the Sibylline oracles, Eupolemus written by John Raymond Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Raymond Bartlett
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521285513
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews in the Hellenistic World written by John Raymond Bartlett and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1985 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to introduce the work of Hellenistic Jewish writers of the period 200 BC to AD 200. Four in particular are studied. The authors of the Letter of Aristeas and the Sibylline Oracles came from second-century BC Egypt. Eupolemus wrote probably in Jerusalem at the same time. Josephus, a priest from Judaea, wrote in Rome in the late first century AD. Using Greek, not Hebrew or Aramaic, and conscious of the position of Jews in the Graeco-Roman world, they wished to demonstrate that their cultural and religious heritage stood comparison with the Graeco-Roman tradition and that Jews were neither so philosophically naive nor so politically troublesome as they were often supposed to be. An opening chapter describing the position of Jews in the Hellenistic world is followed by selected passages, all newly translated, with introductory essays and commentary. The collection makes available to students much material hitherto not easily accessible.

Author : Ronald Williamson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521315487
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews in the Hellenistic World: Volume 1, Part 2 written by Ronald Williamson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1989-05-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extremely important Jewish writer and thinker of the first century AD, Philo of Alexandria exercised through his ideas and language a lasting influence on the development and growth of Christianity in the New Testament period and later. This book provides an introduction to the major themes and ideas in the religious and philosophical thinking of Philo and outlines the importance of his thought by means of introductory treatments and sections of freshly translated text and commentary. Dr Williamson illustrates in his work the place and significance of Philo within Judaism and as part of the background to Christianity, and so provides a valuable resource for scholars and students in this area of study.

Author : Stephen S. Carver
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608994252
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The UnGospel written by Stephen S. Carver and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus proclaimed an empowering message about the Kingdom of God in order to encourage the common people of his day to care for one another as a demonstration of their love for God. Yet, Christians eventually proclaimed a formulaic message about Jesus Christ in order to convince people Jesus was the only way of salvation. How did this change occur? The UnGospel presents a reconstruction of the life and teachings of the historical Jesus and then contrasts the basic message of Jesus with the layers of interpretation added to Jesus' message by the early Christian church.

Author : Paul Ciholas
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865547834
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Omphalos and the Cross written by Paul Ciholas and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a post-Constantine cultural and religious setting Christian theology was marked by a dialectical tension in which the spiritual could no longer be freed from the secular or the eternal from the temporal.".

Author : Jason M. Silverman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567244466
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persepolis and Jerusalem written by Jason M. Silverman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persepolis and Jerusalem reconsiders Iranian influence upon Jewish apocalyptic, and offers grounds upon which such study may proceed. After describing the history of scholarship on the question of Iranian influence and on Jewish apocalyptic, Jason M. Silverman reformulates the methodology for understanding apocalyptic and influence. Two chapters set the discussion firmly in the Achaemenid Empire, describing the sources for Iranian religion, the issues involved in attempting a historical reconstruction, the methodology by which one can date the various texts and ideas, and the potential loci for Iranian-Judaean interaction. The historical context is expanded through media-contextualization, particularly Oral Theory, and critiques the standard text-centric method of current Biblical Scholarship. With this background, pericopes from Ezekiel, Daniel, and 1 Enoch are analyzed for Iranian influence. The study then brings together the contexts and analyses to argue for an 'Apocalyptic Hermeneutic' which relates the phenomena of apocalypticism, apocalypse, and millenarianism-seeing the hermeneutic as a dialectical thread holding them all together as well as apart- and posits this as the best place to understand Iranian influences.

Author : Julien Smith
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161509742
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christ the Ideal King written by Julien Smith and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2011 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central rhetorical strategy of Ephesians involves the portrayal of Christ as an ideal king who reunites a fractured cosmos and humanity through his reign. In this comprehensive study, Julien Smith shows how this literary characterization unifies the letter's major themes: reconciling humanity with God, uniting Jew and gentile, establishing ecclesiastical harmony, and defeating hostile powers arrayed against the church. The author grounds his analysis in a thorough account of the kingly ideal's powerful contemporary cultural resonance, which was rooted in the widespread yearning within both Greco-Roman and Jewish thought for a golden age inaugurated by a divinely ordained monarch. For Ephesians' author and audience, only Christ the ideal king has power to form identity and transform behavior.

Author : E. S. Shaffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521390149
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Criticism: Volume 10, Comedy, Irony, Parody written by E. S. Shaffer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-11-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 10, dedicated to 'Comedy, Irony, Parody', celebrates the first decade of Comparative Criticism in a light-hearted vein. Michael Silk opens with a wide-ranging essay asserting the primacy of comedy and declaring its independence of tragedy. T. L. S. Sprigge explores philosophers who dared to write on laughter: Schopenhauer and Bergson. Bernard Harrison looks at the twentieth century's favourite comic novel, Tristram Shandy, in the light of Locke's views on 'the particular'. Peter Brand pursues the theatrical arts of disguises, masking, and gender-swapping through Renaissance Europe, from Ariosto to Shakespeare. Jane H. M. Taylor traces the danse macabre in modern 'black humour'. Christine Brooke-Rose, distinguished novelist and critic, reads from and comments on her own witty fictions. Michael Wood describes how Lolita outwitted her seducer.

Author : Alexandria Frisch
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900433131X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Danielic Discourse on Empire in Second Temple Literature written by Alexandria Frisch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Alexandria Frisch uses a postcolonial lens to examine the biblical book of Daniel, as well as its antecedents and later interpretations, in order to identify changing perceptions of foreign empire throughout the Second Temple period.

Author : Daniel M. Gurtner
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493427148
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introducing the Pseudepigrapha of Second Temple Judaism written by Daniel M. Gurtner and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Center for Biblical Studies Book Award (Reference Works) This book introduces readers to a much-neglected and misunderstood assortment of Jewish writings from around the time of the New Testament. Dispelling mistaken notions of "falsely attributed writings" that are commonly inferred from the designation "pseudepigrapha," Daniel Gurtner demonstrates the rich indebtedness these works exhibit to the traditions and scriptures of Israel's past. In surveying many of the most important works, Introducing the Pseudepigrapha of Second Temple Judaism shows how the pseudepigrapha are best appreciated in their own varied contexts rather than as mere "background" to early Christianity or emerging rabbinic Judaism. Foreword by Loren T. Stuckenbruck.