Erich Gruen. Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition. Hellenistic Culture and Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xx, 335 pp.

Erich S. Gruen, a leading Greco-Roman historian, here presents the results of several years of research in the field of Jewish history. Positioning himself as the gadfly in his adopted field, he describes certain consensus positions of scholars in Jewish studies and proceeds seriatim to question or...

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Main Author: Wills, Lawrence M. 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press 2002
In: AJS review
Year: 2002, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 354-356
Further subjects:B Book review
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Summary:Erich S. Gruen, a leading Greco-Roman historian, here presents the results of several years of research in the field of Jewish history. Positioning himself as the gadfly in his adopted field, he describes certain consensus positions of scholars in Jewish studies and proceeds seriatim to question or deconstruct them. This makes for interesting reading, and in some cases a significant challenge to the standard views of textbooks on the subject. Only some of his challenges can be mentioned here.
ISSN:1475-4541
Contains:Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0364009402240118