Hellenization in Syria-Palestine: The Case of Judea in the Third Century BCE
How and to what degree was Judea Hellenized during the third century BCE? Its Ptolemaic masters laid their hands on the Judean economy; Ptolemaic Yehud coins indicate that much. But do the coins signal Hellenistic cultural influence as well? What of monumental remains at principal Hellenistic sites?...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Scholars Press
1994
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The Biblical archaeologist
Year: 1994, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 98-108 |
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Summary: | How and to what degree was Judea Hellenized during the third century BCE? Its Ptolemaic masters laid their hands on the Judean economy; Ptolemaic Yehud coins indicate that much. But do the coins signal Hellenistic cultural influence as well? What of monumental remains at principal Hellenistic sites? Taken as a whole, the growing body of archaeological data depicts third century BCE Judea as still aloof from the Hellenistic cultural inundation of the next century. |
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Contains: | Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeologist
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3210387 |