Athens in Jerusalem : classical antiquity and Hellenism in the making of the modern secular Jew / Yaacov Shavit ; translated by Chaya Naor and Niki Werner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaviṭ, Yaʻaḳov, 1944-

Contributor:

Naor, Chaya.

Series:

Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)

Littman library of Jewish civilization

Standardized Title:

Yahadut bi-reʼi ha-Yaṿnut ṿe-hofaʻat ha-Yehudi ha-Helenisṭi ha-moderni. English

יהדות בראי היונות והופעת היהודי ההלניסטי המודרני. אנגלית

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Greece--Religion.

Greece.

Judaism--Relations--Greek religion.

Judaism.

Jews--Civilization--Greek influences.

Jews.

Judaism--History--Modern period, 1750---Historiography.

Interfaith relations.

Greeks--Religion.

Religion.

Jews--Civilization.

Judaism--History--1750- ,Modern period.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 560 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Portland, Or. : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1997.

Language Note:

Translated from the Hebrew.

Contents:

1. Waking the dead

Greece as an ideal and an exemplar

2. Hellenism and Hebraism : the two poles of the world

3. Israel and Greece : reviving a legendary past

4. 'Greek wisdom' as secular knowledge and science

5. Japheth in the tents of Shem : the reception of the classical heritage in modern Hebrew culture

6. The moral dimension : commonality and particularity

7. Worlds without compromise : reconstructing the disparities

8. Have Jews imagination? Jews and the creative arts

9. The nature of the Hellenistic mirror

10. Judaism and Hellenism in Palestine and Alexandria : two models of a national and cultural encounter

11. Homeric books and Hellenistic culture in the world of the sages.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-545) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Shavit, Jacob. Yahadut bi-reʼi ha-Yaṿnut ṿe-hofaʻat ha-Yehudi ha-Helenisṭi ha-moderni. English. Athens in Jerusalem.

ISBN:

1874774250

9781874774259

OCLC:

36528358