Athens in Jerusalem: Classical Antiquity and Hellenism in the Making of the Modern Secular Jew by Yaacov Shavit

Athens in Jerusalem: Classical Antiquity and Hellenism in the Making of the Modern Secular Jew

Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Yaacov Shavit with Chaya Naor (Translator), Niki Werner (Translator)

576 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion medium-paced

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According to the author the Hellenistic trad ition played a role as a model for Jewish modernisers to dra w upon as they perceived a lack in Jewish culture. The autho r believes that Greek and Hellenistic concepts are now inter nalised by the Jewi...

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