Hellenism and Hellenistic Trends in Judaism (332-63 BCE)

1. From Text to Tradition
   1. Hellenism as Cultural Phenomenon
   2. Hellenistic Trends in Palestinian Judaism
2. Historical surveys
   1. Lee I. Levine. “The Age of Hellenism- Alexander the Great and the Rise and Fall of the Hasmonean Kingdom.”
3. Primary sources
   1. Babylonian Talmud Yoma 69a – The Meeting of Alexander and the High Priest
   2. Josephus, Antiquities XI, 321-47- Alexander and the Jews
   3. Josephus, Antiquities XII, 156-85 – The Ascendancy of the Tobiads
4. Secondary sources
   1. Robert G. Hall. “Epispasm—Circumcision in Reverse,” Bible Review (8:4) 1992.
5. Images
   1. The Parthenon, Athenian Acropolis, 5th century BCE.