Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period : Abridged Edition

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Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period : Abridged EditionThis volume presents the most important portions of Erwin Goodenough's classic thirteen volume work, a magisterial attempt to encompass human spiritual history in general through the study of Jewish symbols in particular. Revealing that the Jewish religion of the period was much more varied and complex than the extant Talmudic literature would lead us to believe, Goodenough offered evidence for the existence of a Hellenistic Jewish mystic mythology

Ypi grapples with uncertainty

David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre to students and enthusiasts interested in knowing how the plays were performed

The conquest that begot the Roman Empire

Between approximately 39 and 29 BC

Like a fire-and-brimstone preacher

Such a study develops naturally from Milman Parry's work

The papers given at the conference and collected in this volume concentrate on three aspects of Berlin's concept of pluralism

In the thirty-two lessons

though his first writings were in Greek

In this book one becomes aware of Cavafy’s deep historical knowledge

and Athenaeus

and is scorned and rejected by her kin