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

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

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

Taking on the question of how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible, this book explains how Judaism played a vital role in defin

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