The Jews in the Greek Age

by Elias Joseph Bickerman

Book Overview

One of our century's greatest authorities on the ancient world gives us here a vivid account of the Jewish people from the conquest of Palestine by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.E. to the revolt of the Maccabees. It is a rich story of Jewish social, economic, and intellectual life and of the relations between the Jewish community and the Hellenistic rulers and colonizers of Palestine--a historical narrative told with consummate skill. Bickerman portrays...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674474902
• ISBN13: 9780674474901
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"