Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered

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