Jewish perspectives on Hellenistic rulers
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Jewish perspectives on Hellenistic rulers
(Hellenistic culture and society, 50)(S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies)
University of California Press, c2007
- : cloth : alk. paper
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  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
"All papers in this book were presented at the Greek Bible Project's colloquium"--Preface
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-324) and indexes
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Contents of Works
- Philosophy and monarchy in the Hellenistic world / Oswyn Murray
- The character of Ptolemaic aristocracy: problems of definition and evidence / Jane Rowlandson
- Persia through the Jewish looking-glass / Erich Gruen
- Ben Sira on kings and kingship / Benjamin Wright
- The image of the Oriental monarch in the Third Book of Maccabees / Philip Alexander and Loveday Alexander
- The angry tyrant / Tessa Rajak
- The narrative function of the king and the library in the Letter of Aristeas / Sylvie Honigman
- Kingship and banditry: the Parthian empire and its western subjects / Richard Fowler
- Translating for Ptolemy: patriotism and politics in the Greek Pentateuch? / Sarah Pearce
- Poet and critic: royal ideology and the Greek translator of Proverbs / James Aitken
- The king's good servant?: Loyalty, subversion, and Greek Daniel / Jennifer Dines
- The terminology of government in the Septuagint--in comparison with Hebrew, Aramaic, and other languages / Lester Grabbe
- The court function of the interpreter in Genesis 42.23 and early Greek papyri / Trevor Evans
- The Greek Bible and Jewish concepts of royal priesthood and priestly monarchy / Arie van der Kooij
- Royal ideology: 1 and 2 Maccabees and Egypt / Jan Willem van Henten
- Constructing kings--from the Ptolemies to the Herodians: the archaeological evidence / Douglas Edwards