Pseudo-Hecataeus, on the Jews. Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora (Hellenistic Culture & Society, Band / Volume 21).

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) - Sehr guter Zustand, Schutzumschlag gerieben / Very good condition, dustjacket rubbed - Inhaltsverzeichnis / Contents: I HECATAEUS, HIS WORK, AND THE JEWISH EXCURSUS -- 1. The Man, the Ethnographic Genre, and Hecataeus's Egyptian Ethnography 7 -- 2. The Jewish Excursus 18 -- II THE PASSAGES IN AGAINST APION: -- TEXT AND TRANSLATION -- III THE QUESTION OF AUTHENTICITY -- 1. Mosollamus the Jew and Bird Omens 57 -- 2. Ptolemy I and the Jews 71 -- 3. Hezekiah the High Priest 82 -- 4. Religious Persecutions and Martyrdom 91 -- 5. The Destruction of Pagan Temples -- and Altars 97 -- 6. Jewish Emigration to Phoenicia 101 -- 7. "Many Fortresses of the Jews" 105 -- 8. The Geography of Judea and Jerusalem 107 -- 9. The Annexation of Samaria to Judea by Alexander 113 -- IV DATE OF COMPOSITION 122 -- i. The Anachronistic References 122 -- 2. Terminus ante Quem 137 -- 3. Pseudo-Aristeas and Pseudo-Hecataeus 139 -- V THE AUTHOR: ORIGIN, EDUCATION, AND RELIGIOUS GROUP 143 -- 1. Descent and Provenance 143 -- 2. Greek Education 148 -- 3. Jewish Education 159 -- 4. The Religious Division of Egyptian Jewry and -- the Author's Affiliation 168 -- VI THE FRAMEWORK, LITERARY GENRE, STRUCTURE, AND CONTENTS 182 -- 1. Monograph or Excursus? 182 -- 2. The Title of the Treatise and the Literary Genre 187 -- 3. The Structure of an Ethnographical Work 191 -- 4. The Structure of On the Jews: The Place and -- Role of the Hezekiah Story 219. ISBN 9780520200593