Hellenism and Hellenistic Trends in Judaism (332-63 BCE)

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1. From Text to Tradition
   1. Hellenism as Cultural Phenomenon
   2. Hellenistic Trends in Palestinian Judaism
2. Historical surveys
   1. Lee I. Levine. “The Age of Hellenism: Alexander the Great and the Rise and Fall of the Hasmonean Kingdom.”
   2. Louis H. Feldman. “Palestinian and Diaspora Judaism in the First Century.” Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism: a Parallel History of their Origins and Early Development. Ed. Hershal Shanks. Washington D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1993.
3. Primary sources
   1. Babylonian Talmud Yoma 69a: The Meeting of Alexander and the High Priest
   2. Josephus, Antiquities XI, 321-47: Alexander and the Jews
   3. Josephus, Antiquities XII, 156-85: The Ascendancy of the Tobiads
4. Secondary sources
   1. Robert G. Hall. “Epispasm—Circumcision in Reverse.” Bible Review 8, 4, (1992).
5. Images
   1. Gold coin portraying Alexander the Great discovered at Acre, Israel, (front).
   2. Gold coin portraying the goddess Athena, discovered at Acre, Israel, (reverse).
   3. The Parthenon, Athenian Acropolis, 5th century BCE.
   4. Fragment of the Septuagint from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible.
   5. The Tobiad Palace at Iraq el-Amir, near modern Amman, Jordan, 3rd century BCE.
   6. Interior of the Tobiad Palace at Iraq el-Amir, near modern Amman, Jordan, 3rd century BCE.