03280nam a2200421Ia 4500 ocn593239941 OCoLC 20200709055240.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 100402s2010 caua sb s001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9780520943636 (electronic bk.) 0520943635 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)593239941 309469 (N$T) PN56.3.J4 B37 2010eb 880.9/3529924 22 N$TA Bar-Kochva, Bezalel. The image of the Jews in Greek literature [electronic resource] : the Hellenistic Period / Bezalel Bar-Kochva. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010. 1 online resource (xiv, 606 p.) : ill. The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies Hellenistic culture and society ; 51 Includes bibliographical references (p. 543-576) and index. Introduction -- Part I. From Alexander and the Successors to the Religious Persecutions of Antiochus Epiphanes (333-168 B.C.E.) -- Theophrastus on Jewish Sacrificial Practices and the Jews as a Community of Philosophers -- Aristotle, the Learned Jew, and the Indian Kalanoi in Clearchus -- The Jewish Ethnography by Hecataeus of Abdera -- Megasthenes on the "Physics" of the Greeks, Brahmans and the Jews -- Hermippus of Smyrna on Pythagoras, the Jews, and the Thracian -- The Diachronic Libels and Accusations (A): Mnaseas of Patara and the Origins and Developments of the Ass Libel -- Part II. The Hasmonaean Period: From the Jewish Revolt to the Roman Conquest (167-63 B.C.E.) -- The Diachronic Libels and Accusations (B): The Seleucid Court Historian and the Blood Libel -- Agatharchides of Cnidus on the Sabbath as a Superstition -- The Diachronic Libels and Accusations (C): Lysimachus of Alexandria and the Egyptian Hostile Accounts of the Exodus -- Posidonius of Apamea (A): The Man and his Writings -- Posidonius of Apamea (B): The Jewish Ethnography in Strabo's Geographica; Mosaic Judaism versus Second Temple Judaism -- Posidonius of Apamea (C): Josephus on the Siege of Jerusalem by Antiochus VII Sidetes (132/1 B.C.E.); Antiochus the Pious and Hyrcanus the Tyrant -- Posidonius of Apamea (D): The Anti-Jewish Libels and Accusations in Diodorus and Apion -- The Geographical Description of Jerusalem by Timochares. the Siege, and the Libels -- The Anti-Jewish Ethnographic Treatise by Apollonius Molon -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The God of Moses in Strabo / Ivor Ludlam Description based on print version record. Jews in literature. Greek literature, Hellenistic History and criticism. Electronic books. Print version: Bar-Kochva, Bezalel. Image of the Jews in Greek literature. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010 9780520253360 (DLC) 2008035549 (OCoLC)244005131 S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies. Hellenistic culture and society ; 51. NetLibrary http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=309469 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 49732 49732