These essays, by some of today’s greatest scholars of Judaism and Hellenism in antiquity, explore a variety of ways in which these two great civilizations interacted. The common focus of these studies is the transition from one culture to the next – how words or concepts or conventions from the one came to be transplanted, and often modified in the process, in the other. Taken together, however, they provide something broader: a large, variegated picture of the cultural interaction that was to prove so crucial for the later history of Judaism and Christianity.
Author(s): James L. Kugel
Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 74
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 296
SHEM IN THE TENTS OF JAPHET......Page 3
CONTENTS......Page 5
PREFACE......Page 7
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 9
1. Were the Greeks Different? If so, How and Why? / ALBERT I. BAUMGARTEN......Page 11
ISSUES OF LANGUAGE......Page 21
2. Bilingual Jews and the Greek Bible / ALBERT I. BAUMGARTEN......Page 23
3. Context and Connotation. Greek Words for Jewish Concepts in Philo / NAOMI G. COHEN......Page 41
Nomos......Page 43
Νομοθεσία......Page 44
Παράδοσις (Paradosis)......Page 46
δόγμα (dogma)......Page 50
Δικαιοσύνη (Dikaiosyne)......Page 53
Σοφία (Sophia) and Λόγος (Logos)......Page 54
Σοφία/ חכמה / Torah (Sophia/Hokhma/Torah) outside of Philo......Page 56
Wisdom of Ben Sira......Page 57
Wisdom of Solomon......Page 58
Rabbinic Sources......Page 59
In the Septuagint......Page 60
Λόγος (Logos)......Page 61
The singular form of the word Λόγος (Logos) in Philo......Page 62
The Word Combination Λόγων καὶ δογμάτων......Page 64
Σοφία = (Wisdom)......Page 67
HELLENISM IN JEWISH WRITINGS......Page 73
4. Hellenism in the Fragmentary Hellenistic Jewish Authors Resonance and Resistance / CARL R. HOLLADAY......Page 75
Engaging Hellenism......Page 76
Pseudo-Orpheus: God and Evil......Page 84
Aristobulus: The Sabbath and God's Resting......Page 88
Theodotus: Circumcision and Endogamy......Page 92
Conclusion......Page 100
5. Apocalyptic Eschatology in Philosophical Dress in the Wisdom of Solomon / JOHN J. COLLINS......Page 103
Apocalyptic Motifs in the Wisdom of Solomon 1—5......Page 105
The Divine Warrior......Page 111
Epilogue......Page 116
Introduction......Page 119
Creation......Page 120
Revelation......Page 123
Providence......Page 137
1. Introduction......Page 141
2. Eudaimonia and eudaimonism in Greek thought......Page 143
3. Eudaimonia in the writings of Philo......Page 149
4. Other Hellenistic-Jewish texts......Page 154
5. The results so far against the biblical background......Page 156
6. The problem of terminology and content......Page 157
7. The eudaimonia of God......Page 159
8. Why does Philo accept eudaimonism in his thought?......Page 162
9. Shem in the tents of Japheth......Page 166
8. Josephus between Rabbinic Culture and Hellenistic Historiography / CHAIM MILIKOWSKY......Page 169
APPENDIX ONE: THE CHRONOLOGY OF ISRAEL FROM THE EXODUS UNTIL THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE ACCORDI NG TO JOSEPHUS......Page 201
APPENDIX TWO: SEDER OLAM AS A FIRST OR SECOND CENTURY COMPOSITION......Page 208
THE RECEPTION OF JUDAISM BY THE GREEK FATHERS......Page 211
1. Two papyrus codices and a snippet......Page 213
2. Our subject and program......Page 216
3. The story of Philo's survival in Egypt: three strands......Page 218
4. Didymus the blind......Page 224
5. Isidore of Pelusium......Page 228
6. Some conclusions, and back to the papyri......Page 231
Preliminaries......Page 233
Objective and Method......Page 235
Examples......Page 240
Conclusions......Page 246
Introduction......Page 251
I. Origen of Alexandria......Page 255
II. Solomon's Trilogy......Page 256
III. The Book of Ecclesiastes......Page 260
Conclusion: Hermeneutics and Metaphysics......Page 267
Modern Authors......Page 271
Subjects......Page 275
Persons......Page 278
Bible......Page 281
Apocrypha......Page 283
New Testament......Page 284
Old Testament Pseudepigrapha......Page 285
Philo......Page 286
Josephus......Page 289
Early Christian Writings......Page 290
Midrashic Compositions......Page 293
Classical and Hellenistic Jewish Texts......Page 294
