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

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...

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