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Book Number
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000252016
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ISBN
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 9780520253360 (cloth : alk. paper)
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0520253361 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Main Entry
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Bar-Kochva, Bezalel
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Title
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The image of the Jews in Greek literature :. the hellenistic period / Bezalel Bar-Kochva.
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Imprint
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
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Descr.
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xiv, 606 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Series
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( The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies)
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( Hellenistic culture and society ; 51)
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Bibliogr.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 543-576) and index.
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Contents
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Introduction -- Part I. From Alexander and the Successors to the Religious Persecutions of Antiochus Epiphanes (333-168 B.C.E.) -- Theophrastus on Jewish Sacrificial Practices and the Jews as a Community of Philosophers -- Aristotle, the Learned Jew, and the Indian Kalanoi in Clearchus -- The Jewish Ethnography by Hecataeus of Abdera -- Megasthenes on the "Physics" of the Greeks, Brahmans and the Jews -- Hermippus of Smyrna on Pythagoras, the Jews, and the Thracian -- The Diachronic Libels and Accusations (A): Mnaseas of Patara and the Origins and Developments of the Ass Libel -- Part II. The Hasmonaean Period: From the Jewish Revolt to the Roman Conquest (167-63 B.C.E.) -- The Diachronic Libels and Accusations (B): The Seleucid Court Historian and the Blood Libel -- Agatharchides of Cnidus on the Sabbath as a Superstition -- The Diachronic Libels and Accusations (C): Lysimachus of Alexandria and the Egyptian Hostile Accounts of the Exodus -- Posidonius of Apamea (A): The Man and his Writings -- Posidonius of Apamea (B): The Jewish Ethnography in Strabo’s Geographica; Mosaic Judaism versus Second Temple Judaism -- Posidonius of Apamea (C): Josephus on the Siege of Jerusalem by Antiochus VII Sidetes (132/1 B.C.E.); Antiochus the Pious and Hyrcanus the Tyrant -- Posidonius of Apamea (D): The Anti-Jewish Libels and Accusations in Diodorus and Apion -- The Geographical Description of Jerusalem by Timochares. the Siege, and the Libels -- The Anti-Jewish Ethnographic Treatise by Apollonius Molon -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The God of Moses in Strabo / Ivor Ludlam
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Subject - Lib.Cong.
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Jews in literature.
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Greek literature, Hellenistic -- History and criticism.
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Series AE-Uni.Title
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S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
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Hellenistic culture and society ; 51.
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Electronic Location
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 Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0825/2008035549.html
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