Tcherikover, Victor
Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews

Translated by S. Applebaum. Reprint of the edition Philadelphia 1959 [by the arrangement with the Jewish Publication Society of Amerika].

The meeting between Jew and Greek was part of the tremendous process which revolutionized the ancient world. It represented that crucial moment in the history of western civilization when politics, economics, culture and religion took a new turn. In this book Victor Tcherikover draws upon the recent excavations in the eastern Mediterranean as well as the literary discoveries in Egypt and Palestine. Consequently, this volume offers a fresh and vigorous interpretation of the Hellenistic period. It presents novel and convincing theories of the events connected with the outbreak of the Maccabean revolt, and describes the process of Jewish acculturation in the Diaspora in terms both vivid and persuasive. VII,563 Seiten, broschiert (Temple Books T22/Atheneum 1975) mit Textmarkeranstreichungen und farbigen Anmerkungen im Text, mit Gebrauchsspuren, Kanten bestoßen und etwas berieben, letzte Seite löst sich aus der Bindung/Underlinings and annotations with coloured pencil or marker in the text, signs of wear, last page comes loose from the binding