Shem in the tents of Japhet : : essays on the encounter of Judaism and Hellenism / / by James L. Kugel.

• Superior document: Supplements to The journal for the study of Judaism ; 74
• VerfasserIn: Kugel, James L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston ;, Koln : : Brill,, [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; 74.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

These essays, by some of today's greatest scholars of Judaism and Hellenism in antiquity, explore a variety of ways in which these two great civilizations interacted. The common focus of these studies is the transition from one culture to the next - how words or concepts or conventions from the one came to be transplanted, and often modified in the process, in the other. Taken together, however, they provide something broader: a large, variegated picture of the cultural interaction that was to prove so crucial for the later history of Judaism and Christianity.

Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Were the Greeks Different? If so, How and Why? -- ALBERT I. BAUMGARTEN -- ISSUES OF LANGUAGE -- 2. Bilingual Jews and the Greek Bible -- ALBERT I. BAUMGARTEN -- 3. Context and Connotation. Greek Words for Jewish Concepts in Philo -- NAOMI G. COHEN -- HELLENISM IN JEWISH WRITINGS -- 4. Hellenism in the Fragmentary Hellenistic Jewish Authors. Resonance and Resistance -- CARL R. HOLLADAY -- 5. Apocalyptic Eschatology in Philosophical Dress in the Wisdom of Solomon -- JOHN J. COLLINS -- 6. Philo and the Wisdom of Solomon on Creation, Revelation, and Providence: The High-Water Mark of Jewish Hellenistic Fusion -- DAVID WINSTON -- 7. Eudaimonism in Hellenistic-Jewish Literature -- DAVID T. RUNIA -- 8. Josephus between Rabbinic Culture and Hellenistic Historiography -- CHAIM MILIKOWSKY -- THE RECEPTION OF JUDAISM BY THE GREEK FATHERS -- 9. One of Us or One of Them? Christian Reception of Philo the Jew in Egypt -- DAVID T. RUNIA -- 10. Assessing Philo's Influence in Christian Alexandria: The Case of Origen -- ANNEWIES VAN DEN HOEK -- 11. "Vanity of Vanities"? Solomon's Trilogy and the Patristic Subversion of Scripture -- NICHOLAS CONSTAS.