Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period
Angaben zur Quelle:
53,4-5 (2022) 489-523
Schlagwort(e):
Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Greek literature, Hellenistic Jewish authors
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History and criticism
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Judaism History To 70 A.D.
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Eretz Israel History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Kurzfassung:
In Judaism and Hellenism, Hengel described Judean society and literature as torn between absorption and rejection of Hellenism. Following the publication of that work the idea of a clear-cut dichotomy between several social circles and their assorted literary productions remained hugely popular, although the identification of the sides in conflict varied between scholars, with “hellenization” being located either within or without (and against) the temple. This article offers an historiographic survey before proposing a new paradigm inspired by the New Empire Studies. At its core, it identifies the Jerusalem temple as a lively site of learning, whose literati selectively appropriated ideas, literary forms, and technologies not only from the Greek, imperial culture(s) but also from neighboring temple cultures (Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Phoenician), in a bid to keep their ancestral traditions relevant as they made sense of the ever-changing world that they lived in. Everything was adapted, or subverted and hybridized.
DOI:
10.1163/15700631-bja10058
URL:
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