Socrates and the Jews: Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud

by Miriam Leonard and Professor of Greek Literature and Its Reception Miriam Leonard

Book Overview

"What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" Asked by the early Christian Tertullian, the question was vigorously debated in the nineteenth century. While classics dominated the intellectual life of Europe, Christianity still prevailed and conflicts raged between the religious and the secular. Taking on the question of how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible, Socrates and the Jews explains how Judaism played...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022621334X
• ISBN13: 9780226213347
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"