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Judaism and Hellenism: Studies in Their Encounter in Palestine during the Early Hellenistic Period, Volumes 1 & 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Martin Hengel gathers an encyclopedic amount of material, ancient and modern, to present an exhaustive survey of the early course of Hellenistic civilization as it related to developing Judaism. The result is a highly readable account of a largely unfamiliar world which is indispensable for those interested in Judaism and the birth of Christianity alike. An extensive section of notes and...

the first time in the account of the persecution under Antiochus IV in II Maccabees or its source in Jason of Cyrene, and conveys what even the ancient world found to be an astonishing state of affairs: the word means both political and genetic association with the Jewish nation and exclusive belief in the one God of Israel, together with observance of the Torah given by him.1 From this it follows that if our work is to do justice to its subject it cannot be limited to ‘religious’ questions, but
Volume 1, Pages 2–3
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