| Between Alexandria and Jerusalem: The Dynamic of Jewish and Hellenistic Culture Contributor(s): Kovelman, Arkady (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004144021 ISBN-13: 9789004144026 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $203.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2005 Annotation: The book exhibits the dynamics of Jewish culture from Alexandrian exegesis to the Talmud in the framework of literary revolutions. These revolutions followed the crisis of tradition and the appearance of 'mass society' in Late Antiquity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science - Psychology - Religion | Judaism - General |
| Dewey: 303.482 |
| LCCN: 2005051346 |
| Series: Brill Reference Library of Judaism. |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.46" W x 9.6" (1.07 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Between Alexandria and Jerusalem examines the dynamics of Hellenistic and Jewish cultures. It begins by looking at the changes in mentality as reflected in papyri of Roman Egypt, the birth of a qualified audience looking for teachers and preachers and requiring a new culture. This same phenomenon emerged in Rabbinic society. Rabbinic literature was different not only from the Bible, but from Alexandrian exegesis as well. However, Alexandrian exegesis paved the way for rabbinic Midrash. The book defies the understanding of culture as a combination of various petrified 'patterns, ' Jewish and Hellenic. It also challenges the idea of 'separate' Jewish cultures. Rather, it endeavors to trace tremendous cultural changes. It was exactly these changes that connected one period to another, one literature to another, and thus embodied continuity and unity of culture. |