Jewish ethnic identity and relations in Hellenistic Egypt : with walls of iron? /

Jewish ethnic identity and relations in Hellenistic Egypt : with walls of iron? /

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 anthropolog...

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Main Author: Moore, Stewart Alden.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2015.

Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 171.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303812.

Subjects:

Jews > Egypt > Identity > History > To 1500.
Jews > History > Historiography. > 586 B.C.-70 A.D.
Judaism > History > Historiography. > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Jewish learning and scholarship > Egypt > History > To 1500.
Jews > Civilization > Greek influences.
Egypt > History > Historiography. > 332-30 B.C.

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Call Number: DS135.E4 M66 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.