The Jewish dialogue with Greece and Rome : studies in cultural and social interaction /
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Twenty-seven interdisciplinary essays on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, exemplifying a wide range of techniques, by a well-known scholar. Three are previously unpublished, including a reappraisal of the Judaism and Hellenism debate and a study of the Sardis synagogue. The book's overall coherence derives from the author's long-standing interests in the analysis of texts as documents of cultural and religious interaction, and in how Jewish communities were woven into the social fabric of Greek cities in the Hellenistic and Roman East. The four sections are: Greeks and Jews, Josephus, The Jewish Diaspora and Epigraphy, and finally Beyond the Greeks and Romans, essays which extend into Christian literature and on to the nineteenth century reception of the Judaism/Hellenism dichotomy. Scholars and students from a wide variety of backgrounds will benefit. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
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1 online resource (xix, 579 pages cm) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047400196 :
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Egypt, Canaan and Israe l history, imperialism, ideology and literature : proceedings of a conference at the University of Haifa, 3-7 May 2009 /
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The proceedings of the conference "Egypt, Canaan and Israel: History, Imperialism, Ideology and Literature" include the latest discussions about the political, military, cultural, economic, ideological, literary and administrative relations between Egypt, Canaan and Israel during the Second and First Millennia BC incorporating texts, art, and archaeology. A diverse range of scholars discuss subjects as wide-ranging as the Egyptian-Canaanite relations in the Second Intermediate Period, the ideology of boundary stelae, military strategy, diplomacy and officials of the New Kingdom and Late Period, the excavations of Beth-Shean and investigations into the Aruna Pass, and parallels between Biblical, Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern texts. Such breadth in one volume offers a significant contribution to our understanding of the interactions between the civilizations of the ancient Near East.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004210691 :
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Forced conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam : coercion and faith in premodern Iberia and beyond /
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Focusing on the Iberian Peninsula but examining related European and Mediterranean contexts as well, Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam traces how Christians, Jews, and Muslims grappled with the contradictory phenomenon of faith brought about by constraint and compulsion. Forced conversion brought into sharp relief the tensions among the accepted notion of faith as a voluntary act, the desire to maintain "pure" communities, and the universal truth claims of radical monotheism. Offering a comparative view of an important yet insufficiently studied phenomenon in the history of religions, this collection of essays explores the ways in which religion and violence reshaped these three religions and the ways we understand them today.
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Includes index. :
1 online resource. :
9789004416826
Cultural contact and appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean world : a periplos /
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Karl Jaspers dubbed the period, 800-400 BCE, the Axial Age. Axial it was, for out of it emerged the idea of Greek culture, with its influence on Roman and later empires. Jaspers' Axial Age was the chrysalis of culturally-meaningful modernity. Trade expands intellectual horizons. The economic and political effects permeate such social domains as technology, language and worldview. In the last category, many issues take on an emotional freight - the birth of science, monotheism, philosophy, even theory itself. Cultural Contact and Appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean World: A Periplos , explores adaptation, resistance and reciprocity in Axial-Age Mediterranean exchange (ca. 800-300 BCE). Some essayists expand on an international discussion about myth, to which even the Church Fathers contributed. Others explore questions of how vocabulary is reapplied, or how the alphabet is reapplied, in a new environment. Detailed cases ground participants' capacity to illustrate both the variety of the disciplinary integuments in which we now speak, one with the other, across disciplines, and the sheer complexity of constructing a workable programme for true collaboration.
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1 online resource (ix, 315 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-297) and indexes. :
9789004194557 :
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El sur de la península Ibérica y el Mediterráneo occidental : relaciones culturales en la segunda mitad del II milenio a.C. /
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Greek epics are the basis for the first speculations that link societies all along the Mediterranean coast. This work strives to distinguish reality from myth in the pursuit of a bond of certainty between the data provided by historical, literary and archaeological sources.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (580 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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9781784916459 (ebook) :
Rome and Barbaricum : contributions to the archaeology and history of interaction in European protohistory /
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How did the 'Barbarians' influence Roman culture? What did 'Roman-ness' mean in the context of Empire? What did it mean to be Roman and/or 'Barbarian' in different contexts? Nine papers explore concepts of Romanisation and of Barbaricum from a multi-disciplinary and comparative standpoint, covering Germania, Dacia, Moesia Inferior, Hispania, and more.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (164 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789691047 (PDF ebook) :
Bridge of civilizations : the Near East and Europe, c. 1100-1300 /
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This volume considers the links and contrasts between Europe and the areas around the eastern Mediterranean that were visited and occupied by western crusaders and settlers in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, giving special attention to the evidence provided by archaeology and material culture, as well as historical sources.
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1 online resource (xx, 318 pages) : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) :
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9781789693287 (ebook) :
Enemies of civilization : attitudes toward foreigners in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China /
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xviii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-208) and index. :
079146363X (hc : acidfree paper)
0791463648 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
9780791463642
Egypt and the Levant : interrelations from the 4th through the early 3rd millennium BCE /
: Proceedings of an international conference held at the Nelson Gluek School of Biblical Archaeology at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem, 1998. : xxi, 547 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 0718502620
Greco-Egyptian interactions : literature, translation, and culture, 500 BCE-300 CE /
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Contact and interaction between Greek and Egyptian culture can be traced in different forms over more than a millennium: from the sixth century BC, when Greeks visited Egypt for the sake of tourism or trade, through to the Hellenistic period, when Egypt was ruled by the Macedonian-Greek Ptolemaic dynasty who encouraged a mixed Greek and Egyptian culture, and even more intensely in the Roman Empire, when Egypt came to be increasingly seen as a place of wonder and a source of magic and mystery. This volume addresses the historical interaction between the ancient Greek and Egyptian civilizations in these periods, focusing in particular on literature and textual culture. Comprising fourteen chapters written by experts in the field, each contribution examines such cultural interaction in some form, whether influence between the two cultures, or the emergence of bicultural and mixed phenomena within Egypt. A number of the chapters draw on newly discovered Egyptian texts, such as the Book of Thoth and the Book of the Temple, and among the wide range of topics covered are religion (such as prophecy, hymns, and magic), philosophy, historiography, romance, and translation - Publisher.
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"Many of the papers in this volume had their origin in a conference at the University of Reading, Graeco-Aegypto / Aegypto-Graeca: Interactions between Greece and Egypt 700 BCE-300 CE"-Acknowledgements. :
xiii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
0199656126
9780199656127
Roma e l'Egitto nell'antichità classica : Cairo, 6-9 febbraio 1989 : atti del I Congresso internazionale italo-egiziano /
: At head of title : Ministero degli affari esteri, Istituto italiano di cultura per la R.A.E. : xix, 364 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 8824004709