The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature: The Hellenistic Period Volume 51

by Bezalel Bar-Kochva

Book Overview

This landmark contribution to ongoing debates about perceptions of the Jews in antiquity examines the attitudes of Greek writers of the Hellenistic period toward the Jewish people. Among the leading Greek intellectuals who devoted special attention to the Jews were Theophrastus (the successor of Aristotle), Hecataeus of Abdera (the father of "scientific" ethnography), and Apollonius Molon (probably the greatest rhetorician of the Hellenistic world)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520290844
• ISBN13: 9780520290846
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 628 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"