The the Hellenistic Period Bar-Kochva, Bezalel. creator text bibliography Electronic books. cau Berkeley University of California Press c2010 2010 monographic eng

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1 online resource (xiv, 606 p.) : ill. 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 Bezalel Bar-Kochva. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 543-576) and index. Jews in literature Greek literature, Hellenistic History and criticism PN56.3.J4 B37 2010eb 880.9/3529924 Bar-Kochva, Bezalel. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010 (DLC) 2008035549 (OCoLC)244005131 9780520943636 (electronic bk.) 0520943635 (electronic bk.) http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=309469 http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=309469 N$T 100402 20200709055240.0 ocn593239941