Fragments from Hellenistic Jewish authors
Fragments from Hellenistic Jewish authors
"This book explores how Jews, and some Christians, understood the meaning of 'Israel' up to the Talmudic period, and the implications of those understandings for Jewish identity and self-definition represented by the various documents discussed. In its two accounts in Genesis of…
Ancient peoples regarded names as indicative of character and destiny. The Jews were no exception. All Jews descended from Jacob, who was given the name Israel. The Bible seemed to explain this name as having to do with struggle. But generations following the Bible found in Isra…
Ancient peoples regarded names as indicative of character and destiny. The Jews were no exception. All Jews descended from Jacob, who was given the name Israel. The Bible seemed to explain this name as having to do with struggle. But generations following the Bible found in Isra…
The political and social changes that occurred with the transformation of the Roman Empire into a Roman Christian Empire and with the bishops’ new social position as imperial bishops called for new literary representations of the ideal Christian leader. In this struggle, the fig…
