Sara Raup Johnson. Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity: Third Maccabees in Its Cultural Context.(Book review)

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SARA RAUP JOHNSON. Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity: Third Maccabees in Its Cultural Context. Hellenistic Culture and Society 43. The Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xix + 253.

This book has two main parts. The first, "Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity," is devoted to the book's major theme, namely, that many Hellenistic Jewish works of various genres share two characteristics: they are historical fictions and they bespeak positions concerning Jewish identity (which latter ...

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