This collection of essays seeks to demonstrate that many biblical authors deliberately used Classical and Hellenistic Greek texts for inspiration when crafting

This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature and history of early J

The Hellenistic era witnessed the overlap of antiquity’s two great Western civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. This was the epoch of Alexander’s vast ex

Martin Hengel gathers an encyclopedic amount of material, ancient and modern, to present an exhaustive survey of the early course of Hellenistic civilization as

In these fictive creations, Jewish writers reinvented their own past, offering us vital insights into Jewish self-perception.