Ancient Israel and Ancient Greece: Religion, Politics, and Culture

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

JOHN PAIRMAN BROWN, Ancient Israel and Ancient Greece: Religion, Politics, and Culture (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003). Pp. xiv + 229. Paper $22.

Brown began this study because, among other things, he noted that in Europe, "Hebrew and Greek grammarians" had a continuing tradition of reading and copying books that resulted from the fact that Israel and Greece had "simple alphabetic scripts" that "were the valued possession of a whole society of free men, and some women too; and even under colonization or in exile they copied the books and taught schoolchildren how to read them out loud" (pp. ...

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