RT Article
T1 Vivid Representation and Victims of Forced Displacement in Jewish Literature in Greek
JF NTT
VO 79
IS 1
SP 81
OP 111
A1 Glas, Eelco
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1921784822
AB This article examines the portrayal of forced displacement in selected Greek-language Jewish prose texts. The selected narratives concern 1) the capture of slaves from Judea by Ptolemy I and their liberation by his son (Arist. 12-27); 2) Ptolemy IV’s forced mobilisation of Jews to the hippodrome of Schedia, near Alexandria (3 Macc. 4:4-11); and 3) Mary of Bethezuba, a refugee in Jerusalem during the Roman siege in 70 CE (Josephus, J.W. 6.199-219). I analyse the role of non-hegemonic social groups such as women, children, and the elderly in these narratives in terms of Greco-Roman rhetorical conventions of vivid representation (enargeia). Based on this analysis, I argue that the emphasis on these specific groups can be explained as rhetorical highlights designed to appeal to the imagination of ancient readers and listeners.
K1 Jewish literature in Greek
K1 forced displacement
K1 Intersectionality
K1 Social stratification
K1 vividness (enargeia)
DO 10.5117/NTT2025.1.005.GLAS