Semites, Iranians, Greeks, and Romans: Studies in their Interactions / Jonathan A. Goldstein.

• Author: Brown University.
• VerfasserIn: Goldstein, Jonathan A.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Brown University.
• Place / Publishing House: Atlanta : : Scholars Press,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: Second edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Brown Judaic studies; 217
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 257 p. )
• Notes: The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. To use this book, or parts of this book, in any way not covered by the license, please contact Brown Judaic Studies, Brown University, Box 1826, Providence, RI 02912.

This is a collection of several of Goldstein's previously published articles. These articles deal with two themes that have animated much of Goldstein’s scholarly interests, intercultural borrowing and religious resistance to foreign rule. Jonathan Goldstein taught at the University of Iowa for 35 years and passed away in 2004.

Table of Contents

Part One: Intercultural Borrowing -- Part Two: Religious Resistance to Foreign Rule.

Jewish Acceptance and Rejection of Hellenism -- The Syriac Bill of Sale from Dura-Europos -- Review of Goodenough -- The Central Composition of the West Wall of the Synagogue of Dura-Europos -- Tales of the Tobiads -- Uruk Prophecy -- The Date of the Book of Jubilees -- The Testament of Moses: Its Content, Its Origin, and Its Attestation in Josephus -- Apocryphal Book of Baruch -- Review of Doran's Temple Propaganda -- How the Authors in I and II Maccabees Treated the “Messianic” Promises.