NO OF PAGES: 327 SUB CAT I: Hellenism SUB CAT II: Diaspora SUB CAT III: Jewish Life DESCRIPTION: One of the most creative and consequential collisions in Western culture involved the encounter of Judaism with Hellenism. In this widely acclaimed study of the Jews who lived in Hellenistic Egypt, "between Athens and Jerusalem," John J. Collins examines the literature of Hellenistic Judaism, treating not only the introductory questions of date, authorship, and provenance but also the larger question of Jewish identity in the Greco-Roman world. First published in 1984, this landmark study by one of the world's leading experts in Hellenistic Judaism is now revised and updated to take in to account the best of recent scholarship.NOTES: SUBTITLE: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora

One of the most creative and consequental collisions in western culture involved the encounter of judaism with hellenism.