Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha
Angaben zur Quelle:
17,1 (2007) 3-19
Schlagwort(e):
Ezekiel,
;
Jews History To 600
;
Exodus, The
;
Antisemitism History To 500
Kurzfassung:
Discusses the work "Exagoge", a tragic drama by a Jew named Ezekiel, apparently from Alexandria, written as a response to anti-Jewish charges that in the Exodus from Egypt the Jews despoiled the Egyptians. Ezekiel's play (written in Greek) minimizes Jewish guilt by limiting the "despoliation": the plunder of Egyptian property by the Jews is presented as Divine grace, in the form of domestic gifts given by Egyptian women to Jewish women, and as "fair wages" for the slave labor of the women and their men before the Exodus. The tragedy, only fragments of which survive, was apparently written toward the end of the 2nd century BCE, when the rise of the Maccabean Judean state raised the question of the loyalty of Alexandrian Jews to Egypt. Ezekiel's insistence that only Jewish women (who were not considered legally responsible) were involved blocked possible attempts by Egyptians to receive compensation.
DOI:
10.1177/0951820707083880
URL:
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