Revolt Of The Scribes

E J Bickerman: THE JEWS IN THE GREEK AGE, 1988 Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

Hardcover, 8vo, xii, 338 pages, 25 cm. Contents: Before and after Alexander. Alexander and Jerusalem ; Alexander and Samaria ; The Greeks discover the Jews ; The Jews discover the Greeks ; Jerusalem and Judea ; The law of the Jews ; The Jewish periphery ; The dispersion ; Aramaic literature --The third century. Ptolemaic Palestine ; The dispersion under the Ptolemies ; The eastern dispersion ; The Greek Torah ; The end of the kingdom of the south ; The kingdom of the north -- Permanence and innovation. The temple ; Priests and Levites ; Economic life ; Scribes and sages ; The Midrash ; The new jurisprudence ; New literature ; New values in the dispersion ; Old and new in religion ; Faith and history ; A retrospect. "Published in cooperation with the Jewish Theological Seminary of America"- half title page. Includes index. Bickerman (1897-1981) was a "historian. Bickerman was born in Kishinev, Russia, and studied at the University of Petrograd. In 1918 he escaped to Germany, studied at the University of Berlin until 1926, and taught there from 1929 until 1932, when he emigrated to France. He was charge de cours in the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes from 1933 to 1940 and in the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique from 1937 on. After the German conquest of France he again escaped, this time to the United States. There he taught at the New School for Social Research and the Ecole Libre in New York, was research fellow at the Jewish Theological Seminary, taught at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, and was professor of ancient history at Columbia University. After his retirement from Columbia he taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Bickerman wrote innumerable articles in scholarly journals in many fields of ancient history, notably law, religion (especially Judaism) , epigraphy, chronology, and the political history of the Hellenistic world. Outstanding among his many books are Der Gott der Makkabaeer; The Maccabees, which revolutionized the historical understanding of the Maccabean revolt; Institutions des Seleucides; and Chronology of the Ancient World - the last two being the fundamental works on their respective subjects. He also wrote The Ancient History of Western Civilization; Studies in Jewish and Christian History, volume 3; and The Jews in the Greek Age" (Smith in EJ, 2007) . Light chipping to edges of dust jacket. Very good condition. (Heb-16-7)

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