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1 online resource (578 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Translators' Note; Introduction; Part I: The First Mirror; 1: Waking the Dead-Greece as an Ideal and an Exemplar; 2: Hellenism and Hebraism: The Two Poles of the World; 3: Israel and Greece: Reviving a Legendary Past; 4: 'Greek Wisdom' as Secular Knowledge and Science; 5: Japheth in the Tents of Shem: The Reception of the Classical Heritage in Modern Hebrew Culture; 6: The Moral Dimension: Commonality and Particularity; 7: Worlds without Compromise: Reconstructing the Disparities |
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8: Have Jews Imagination? Jews and the Creative ArtsPart II: The Second Mirror; 9: The Nature of the Hellenistic Mirror; 10: Judaism and Hellenism in Palestine and Alexandria: Two Models of a National and Cultural Encounter; 11: Homeric Books and Hellenistic Culture in the World of the Sages; Part III: Athens in Jerusalem; 12: Back to History: The Secularization of the Ancient Jewish Past; 13: The Children of Japheth (Aryans) and the Children of Shem (Sernites): Race and Innate Nationalism; 14: The People and its Land: Country, Landscape, and Culture |
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15: A 'Polis' in Jerusalem: The Jewish State16: The New Jewish Culture: Ideal and Reality; Conclusion: What has Athens to Do with Jerusalem?; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 Jewish people ' |
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Print version record |
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Judaism -- Relations -- Greek religion
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Jews -- Civilization -- Greek influences.
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Judaism -- History -- Modern period, 1750- -- Historiography
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Greeks -- Religion
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Interfaith relations
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Jews -- Civilization -- Greek influences
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Judaism
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Religion
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Greece -- Religion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057127
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| Subject |
Greece
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Naor, Chaya
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Werner, Niki
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| ISBN |
9781909821767 |
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1909821764 |
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