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Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora is unavailable, but you can change that!

One of the most creative and consequential collisions in Western culture involved the encounter of Judaism with Hellenism. In this widely acclaimed study of the Jews who lived in Hellenistic Egypt, “between Athens and Jerusalem,” John J. Collins examines the literature of Hellenistic Judaism, treating not only the introductory questions of date, authorship, and provenance but also the larger...

Egypt, and the other was the distinctiveness of the Jewish religion.55 The Jews differed from Syrians and Idumeans insofar as they were more numerous and successful, but also insofar as they were more cohesive and more resistant to assimilation. In the Ptolemaic period, when Jews enjoyed the favor of a king such as Philometor, they inevitably incurred the resentment both of opposing factions and of other groups in the king’s service.56 In the Roman period, the Jews resented the fact that they were
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