Gruen, Erich S.: Heritage and Hellenism

The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition. In this work Erich Gruen draws on a variety of literary and historical texts from antiquity to explore a central question: how did the Jews accommodate themselves to the larger cultural world of the Mediterranean while at the same time reasserting the character of their own heritage within it? Erich Gruen's work highlights Jewish creativity, ingenuity, and inventiveness, as the Jews engaged actively with the traditions of Hellas, adapting genres and transforming legends to articulate their own legacy in modes congenial to a Hellenistic setting. Drawing on a diverse array of texts composed in Greek by Jews over a broad period of time, Gruen explores works by Jewish historians, epic poets, tragic dramatists, writers of romance and novels, exegetes, philosophers, apocalyptic visionaries, and composers of fanciful fables—not to mention pseudonymous forgers and fabricators. In these works, Jewish writers reinvented their own past, offering us the best insights into Jewish self-perception in that era. XX,335 Seiten, Halbleinen (Hellenistic Culture and Society; Vol. 30/S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies/University of California Press 1998) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren/clean text pages, minor traces of use

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