Athens in Jerusalem: Classical Antiquity and Hellenism in the Making of the Modern Secular Jew by Yaacov Shavit

Athens in Jerusalem: Classical Antiquity and Hellenism in the Making of the Modern Secular Jew

Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Yaacov Shavit with Chaya Naor (Translator), Niki Werner (Translator)

576 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion medium-paced
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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 Jewi...

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