Jewish Leadership and Hellenistic Civic Benefaction in the Second Century B.C.E.

From: Journal of Biblical Literature | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

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The abridgment of a multivolume history into a single book requires a penchant for economy, a discerning eye, and, in particular, the selection of words that minimize verbiage yet maximize meaning. Seldom has one prompted so much discourse, out of so few words, as the epitomist of 2 Maccabees when he coined the terms "Judaism" and "Hellenism."1 Over two millennia later, these two words stand at the forefront of research on Jews of the Greco-Roman ...

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