Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered

This book is a collection of 26 previously published articles, with a number of additions and corrections, and with a long new introduction on "e;The Influence of Hellenism on Jews in Palestine in the Hellenistic Period."e; The articles deal with such subjects as "e;Homer and the Near East,"e; "e;The Septuagint,"e; "e;Hatred and Attraction to the Jews in Classical Antiquity,"e; "e;Conversion to Judaism in Classical Antiquity,"e; "e;Philo, Pseudo-Philo, Josephus, and Theodotus on the Rape of Dinah,"e; "e;The Influence of the Greek Tragedians on Josephus,"e; "e;Josephus' Biblical Paraphrase as a Commentary on Contemporary Issues,"e; "e;Parallel Lives of Two Lawgivers: Josephus' Moses and Plutarch's Lycurgus,"e; "e;Rabbinic Insights on the Decline and Forthcoming Fall of the Roman Empire."e;