A Nation of Philosophers: Who Are the Jews? Vol. 2

by Seymour W. Itzkoff

A nation of philosophers is the description given by the Hellenistic Greek thinkers to the Jews when the Greeks and Jews first encountered each other, c.300 BCE. By this era, after the destruction of the First Temple and Jerusalem, 586 BCE, great changes had taken place in Judaism. The Persians had allowed for the return to Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the Temple, 539-520 BCE. Thence, the people of the province of Yehud had to be reeducated in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0913993182
• ISBN13: 9780913993187
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 222 Pages