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

Parthenon

  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.

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