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Shem in the tents of Japhet : essays on the encounter of Judaism and Hellenism / [edited] by James L. Kugel.

Contributor(s): Kugel, James L
Material type: TextTextSeries: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism: v. 74.Publisher: Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2002Description: vi, 286 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004125140 (cloth : alk. paper); 9789004125148 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. -- Congresses | Greek literature, Hellenistic -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses | Hellenism -- Congresses | Philo, of Alexandria -- Congresses | Fathers of the church, Greek -- CongressesDDC classification: 296.3/9 LOC classification: BM176 | .S47 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Were the Greeks different? If so, how and why? / Albert I. Baumgarten -- Contest and connotation. Greek words for Jewish concepts in Philo / Naomi G. Cohen -- Hellenism in the fragmentary Hellenistic Jewish authors. Resonance and resistance / Carl R. Holladay -- Apocalyptic eschatology in philosophical dress in the Wisdom of Solomon / John J. Collins -- Philo and the Wisdom of Solomon on creation, revelation, and providence: the high-water mark of Jewish Hellenistic fusion / David T. Runia -- Josephus between Rabbinic culture and Hellenistic historiography / Chaim Milikowsky -- One of us or one of them? Christian reception of Philo the Jew in Egypt / David T. Runia -- Assessing Philo's influence in Christian Alexandria: the case of Origen / Annewies van den Hoek -- "Vanity of vanities"? Solomon's trilogy and the patristic subversion of Scripture / Nicholas Constas.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Were the Greeks different? If so, how and why? / Albert I. Baumgarten -- Contest and connotation. Greek words for Jewish concepts in Philo / Naomi G. Cohen -- Hellenism in the fragmentary Hellenistic Jewish authors. Resonance and resistance / Carl R. Holladay -- Apocalyptic eschatology in philosophical dress in the Wisdom of Solomon / John J. Collins -- Philo and the Wisdom of Solomon on creation, revelation, and providence: the high-water mark of Jewish Hellenistic fusion / David T. Runia -- Josephus between Rabbinic culture and Hellenistic historiography / Chaim Milikowsky -- One of us or one of them? Christian reception of Philo the Jew in Egypt / David T. Runia -- Assessing Philo's influence in Christian Alexandria: the case of Origen / Annewies van den Hoek -- "Vanity of vanities"? Solomon's trilogy and the patristic subversion of Scripture / Nicholas Constas.

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