Remember Amalek!: Vengeance, Zealotry, and Group Destruction in the Bible According to Philo, Pseudo-Philo, and Josephus

by Louis H. Feldman

Book Overview

The divine command to exterminate Amalek--men, women, children, and even animals who have no free will--is what in contemporary terms has been called genocide. Louis Feldman explores how the earliest systematic commentators on the Bible--the Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo in his many essays on biblical themes; the mysterious, still unclassified Pseudo-Philo in his Biblical Antiquities; the premier Jewish historian and polymath Josephus in his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878204636
• ISBN13: 9780878204632
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.9" x 6.0"