[PDF.19hy] Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans

Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans

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 | #1732640 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2004-10-25 |  2004-08-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.94 x6.13l,1.16 | File type: PDF | 400 pages

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||26 of 29 people found the following review helpful.| 3.4 stars; Exile can be fun|By pnotley@hotmail.com|Erich Gruen's book on the Diaspora offers a major new reinterpretation of the Jewish experiences from Alexander the Great to the Jewish rebellion of 66 CE. Historically, both Othodox and Zionist Jews view the diaspora as a curse, whose denizens are perenially threatened by anti-Semitism. Gruen argues a rather different case.|From Library Journal|Gruen (history and classics, Berkeley) explores four centuries of Jewish life within the dominant classical civilization, from Alexander the Great's conquest of the Near East to the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 C.E. He beg

What was life like for Jews settled throughout the Mediterranean world of Classical antiquity--and what place did Jewish communities have in the diverse civilization dominated by Greeks and Romans? In a probing account of the Jewish diaspora in the four centuries from Alexander the Great's conquest of the Near East to the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 C.E., Erich Gruen reaches often surprising conclusions.

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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans   |  Erich S. Gruen. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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