Early Judaism- A Comprehensive Overview

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Early Jewish Literature Written in Greek Katell Berthelot A large number and great variety of early Jewish works were composed i ...

2 Enoch, Life of Adam and Eve). The decision to put aside Greek transla- tions of texts originally written in Hebrew or Aramaic ...

that Joseph Scaliger pointed up its Jewish origin. The content is not so dis- tinctively Jewish as to allow the reader to identi ...

the preservation and transmission of early Jewish literature written in Greek is itself problematic. This, in turn, helps explai ...

yloniaca,focuses on Abraham’s discovery of astrology and astronomy, a science that he taught to the Phoenicians. He further refe ...

Eupolemus (frg. 1) writes that Moses was the first wise man as well as the first lawgiver and that he invented the alphabet and ...

Occasionally, other biblical books inspired works written in Greek. Demetrius’s work was actually entitledConcerning the Kings i ...

be written by a Greek instead of a Jew. That no reference to the Bible should be found in texts purportedly written by non-Jews ...

Aseneth).Several authors and texts belong to this group: Demetrius, Artapanus, theLetter of Aristeas,Aristeas the Exegete, Eupol ...

parted from Egypt unarmed, the question of how they acquired weapons naturally presented itself. Similarly, in hisJewish Antiqui ...

Epic Poetry and Drama Epic poetry is represented by Philo the Epic Poet and Theodotus. Other poetic texts belong to different ca ...

relationship between the Nephilim (Gen. 6:4) and the giants, probably with reference to Hesiod’sTheogony(Ant.1.73). This is not ...

twined. The use of the Greek language was not a mere stopgap to make up for a deficient knowledge of Hebrew or Aramaic but an in ...

be prepared according to Jewish dietary laws. Moreover, he is willing to take advice on how to rule from the Jewish sages who co ...

Jews and Non-Jews A second issue is the relationship between Jews and non-Jews. Especially prominent is the topic of endogamy, t ...

ticipated the conspiracy of his brothers and willingly traveled to Egypt with the help of the kings of the Arabs, who were “sons ...

them into practice (Migr.90–93). Finally, inJoseph and Aseneth,Joseph re- fuses to kiss Aseneth because she worships idols and e ...

Pseudo-Hecataeus (who, through the story of Mosollamus, mocks pagan superstitious belief in omens), 3 Maccabees (4:16 in particu ...