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Background. Hellenistic rulers of Judea. Hellenization of Jewish society. Hellenistic Jewish diasporas. Absorption into early Christianity. Legacy. Widespread influence beyond Second Temple Judaism. First synagogues in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Mishnaic and Talmudic concepts.
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Sep 13, 2010 · Hellenistic Judaism is part of a wider historical period and phenomenon known as “Second Temple Judaism,” which refers to Judaism from Cyrus’s conquest of Babylon to the fall of the Jerusalem temple in 70 CE, or the Persian, Greek, and early Roman periods.
In Judaism: Myth and legend in the Hellenistic period Judaism entered a new phase in 330 bce , when Alexander the Great completed his conquest of the Middle East. The dominant features of the Hellenistic Age, which began with Alexander’s death in 323, were an increasing cosmopolitanism and…
Nov 3, 2022 · Abstract The special issue of JSJ brings together four contributions that were originally presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2020 in a panel dedicated to the question “What is Hellenistic Judaism?” The panel was organized by the steering committee of the SBL Hellenistic Judaism section. In the introduction, the editors compare early approaches to ...
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By the beginning of the 2nd century, the influence of the Hellenistic Age in Judaea was quite strong; indeed, it has been argued that, if the Seleucids had not forcibly intervened in Jewish affairs, Judaean Judaism would have become even more syncretistic than Alexandrian Judaism.
Hellenization ( also spelled Hellenisation) or Hellenism [1] is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language, and identity by non-Greeks. In the ancient period, colonisation often led to the Hellenisation of indigenous peoples; in the Hellenistic period, many of the territories which were conquered by Alexander the Great were Hellenized.
