ISBN:
9789004303089
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XI, 291 Seiten)
,
graph. Darst.
Year of publication:
2015
Series Statement:
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 171
Series Statement:
Brill Biblical studies, Ancient Near East and early Christianity e-books online
Series Statement:
collection 2016
Series Statement:
Brill online books and journals: E-books
Series Statement:
Journal for the study of Judaism Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Moore, Stewart Alden Jewish ethnic identity and relations in Hellenistic Egypt
Keywords:
Jews Identity To 1500
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History
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Jews History 586 B.C.-70 A.D
;
Historiography
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Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
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Historiography
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Jewish learning and scholarship History To 1500
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Jews Civilization
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Greek influences
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Egypt History 332-30 B.C
;
Historiography
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Ägypten
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Juden
;
Ethnische Identität
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Kulturelle Identität
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Pseudepigraphen
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Geschichte 538 v. Chr.-70
Abstract:
Front Matter -- Introduction -- Thicker than Water? A Social-Scientific Approach to Ancient Judean Ethnicity -- The History of Dustbins: Reconstructing Ethnicity from the Papyri -- Reflections on the Nile: Greek Ethnographers and the Egyptians’ Boundary -- From the Mouths of Beasts: Ethnic Identity in Apocalyptic Literature from Egypt -- For the Sake of Mice and Weasels: Ethnic Boundaries and the “Cultural Stuff” in the Letter of Aristeas -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
In Jewish Ethnic Identity and Relations in Hellenistic Egypt , Stewart Moore investigates the foundations of common assumptions about ethnicity. To maintain one’s identity in a strange land, was it always necessary to band tightly together with one’s coethnics? Sociologists and anthropologists who study ethnicity have given us a much wider view of the possible strategies of ethnic maintenance and interaction. The most important facet of Jewish ethnicity in Egypt which emerges from this study is the interaction over the Jewish-Egyptian boundary. Previous scholarship has assumed that this border was a Siegfried Line marked by mutual contempt. Yet Jews, Egyptians and also Greeks interacted in complicated ways in Ptolemaic Egypt, with positive relationships being at least as numerous as negative ones
Note:
Literaturverz. S. [261] - 287
DOI:
10.1163/9789004303089
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