Judaism and Hellenism
See also the Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek Studies
Aitken, James K., 'M. Hengel, Judentum und Hellenismus', Journal of Biblical Literature (2004).
Alexander, P., ‘Hellenism and hellenization as problematic historiographical categories’, in T. Engberg-Pedersen (ed.), Paul Beyond the Judaism/Hellenism Divide (Louisville/London/Leiden: Westminster John Knox), 63–80.
Barclay, J., Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora. From Alexander to Trajan 323 BCE - 117 CE) (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996).
Barr, James, The Concept of Biblical Theology: An Old Testament Perspective (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999).
Bengston, H., History of Greece: From the Beginnings of the Byzantine era, trans and updated by E.F. Bloedow (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1988), 280 – 91.
Bernal, M., Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civlization: Vol 1, The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785 – 1985 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987).
Bichler, R., “Hellenismus”: Geschichte und Problematik eines Epochenbegriffs (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1983).
Bickerman, E., Der Gott der Makkabäer Untersuchungen über Sinn und Ursprung der makkabäischen Erhebung (Berlin, Schocken Verlag, 1937; ET 1979)
Bickerman, E., From Ezra to the last of the Maccabees; foundations of post-Biblical Judaism (New York, Schocken Books 1970).
Bowersock, G.W., Hellenism in late antiquity: Thomas Spencer Jerome lectures (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Collins, J.J., ‘Cult and culture. The limits of hellenization in Judea’, in Collins, John J. and Sterling, Gregory E. (ed.), Hellenism in the land of Israel (Christianity and Judaism in antiquity series 13. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001), 38 - 61.
Droysen, J.G. (1836), Geschichte des Hellenismus, vol. 1. Hamburg.
Feldman, L.H., ‘Hengel’s Judaism and Hellenism in Retrospect’, JBL 96 (1977), 371–82.
Feldman, L.H. (1986), ‘How much Hellenism in Jewish Palestine?’, HUCA 57, 83–111.
Feldman, L.H. (1993), Jew and gentile in the ancient world. Attitudes and interactions from Alexander to Justinian. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 3–83. [esp. 42-44; 416-22] Feldman, Louis H. ‘How much hellenism in the land of Israel?’, JSJ 33 (2002), 290–313.
Fitzmyer, J. (1970) ‘Languages of Palestine in the First Century AD’, CBQ 32: 501–31.
Gerdmar, Anders, Rethinking the Judaism-Hellenism dichotomy: a historiographical case study of Second Peter and Jude (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2001).
Goldstein, J., ‘Jewish acceptance and rejection of Hellenism’, in Sanders, E. P., Baumgarten, A. I., and Mendelson, Alan (ed.), Jewish and Christian Self-Definition. Volume Two. Aspects of Judaism in the Graeco-Roman Period (London: SCM Press, 1981), 64–87.
Goodenough, E.R. (1953 – 68) Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period, vols 1 – (New York).
Goldhill, S. Who needs Greek?: contests in the cultural history of Hellenism (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002). [opposition to Greek in renaissance; M. Arnold on Greek and Hebraism]
Goodman, M.,‘Jewish attitudes to Greek culture in the period of the Second Temple’, in G. Abramson & T. Parfitt (eds), Jewish Education and Learning: published in honour of Dr. David Patterson on the occasion of his seventieth birthday (Chur/Reading: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994), 167-74.
Goodman, M., ‘Epilogue’, in Collins, John J. and Sterling, Gregory E. (ed.), Hellenism in the land of Israel (Christianity and Judaism in antiquity series, 13; Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001), 302–305.
Grabbe, L.L., Judaic religion in the Second Temple period. Belief and practice from the Exile to Yavneh (London: Routledge, 2000).
Grabbe, L.L. (2002), ‘The Jews and Hellenization: Hengel and his critics’, in Philip R. Davies & John M. Halligan, Second Temple Studies III: Studies in Politics, Class and Material Culture. JSOTSuppl., 340. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. [reprinted from IOUDAIOS: ftp://ftp.lehigh.edu/pub/listserv/ioudaios-l/Articles/lghellen]
Grimal, P. et al., Hellenism and the rise of Rome (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968). [p. 5: creating the ‘mixed’ Graeco-barbarian civlization]
Gruen, Heritage and Hellenism: the reinvention of Jewish tradition (Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 1998).
Gutman, Y. [Jews of Egypt]
Harrison, R., ‘Hellenization in Syria-Palestine: The case of Judea in the third century BCE’, BA 57 (1994), 98 – 108.
Hayes, J.H. & S.R. Mandell, The Jewish people in classical antiquity: from Alexander to Bar Kochba (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998).
Hengel, M. (1980) Jews,Greeks and Barbarians:Aspects of the Hellenization of Judaism in the pre-Christian Period (Trans from German of Juden, Griechen und Barbaren:Aspekte der Hellenisierung des Judentums in vorchristlicher Zeit) (London, 1980).
Hengel, M. (1989) The “Hellenization” of Judaea in the First Century after Christ (London/Philadelophia: SCM, 1989)
Hengel, M. ‘The interpenetration of Judaism and Hellenism in the pre-Maccabean period’, in The Cambridge History of Judaism
Hengel, M. (1991) The Pre-Christian Paul (Philadelphia, 1991) (esp. pp. 54–62).
Hengel, M., Judentum und Hellenismus (WUNT 10; Tubingen: Mohr, 1969; 2nd edn., 1973). Translation 1974.
Hengel, M., ‘Judaism and hellenism revisited’, in Collins, John J. and Sterling, Gregory E. (ed.), Hellenism in the land of Israel (Christianity and Judaism in antiquity series 13. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001), 6-37.
Herr, M.D., ‘Hellenism and Judaism in Eretz Israel’, Eshkolot ns 2 -3 (1977–78), 20–27 (Hebrew).
Kuhrt, A. & Sherwin White, S., From Samarkhand to Sardis: a new approach to the Seleucid empire (London: Duckworth, 1993.).
Leoussi, Athena S., Nationalism and Classicism: The Classical Body as National Symbol in Nineteenth-Century England and France (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1998).
Leoussi, Athena S., Nationalism and racial Hellenism in nineteenth century England and France', Ethnic and Racial Studies 20 no1 (1997), 42–68.
Levine, L.I.,Judaism and Hellenism in antiquity: conflict or confluence? (The Samuel & Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998).
Lieberman (1942) Greek in Jewish Palestine: Studies in the Life and Manners of Jewish Palestine in the II–IV Centuries C.E. (New York, 1942).
Lieberman (1950) Hellenism in Jewish Palestine: studies in the literary transmission, beliefs and manners of Palestine in the I century BCE–IV century CE. (2nd edn.; New York, [1950] 1962).
Martin, D. ‘Paul, Hellenism, and Judaism: Toward a Social History of the Question’, in Troels Engberg-Pedersen (ed.), Paul Beyond the Judaism / Hellenism Divide (Winona Lake, IN: Westminster / John Knox Press, 2001), 29-61.
Mendels, Doron, ‘Jewish historical writings between Judaism and Hellenism. New methods of research’, in Lichtenberger, Hermann and Oegema, Gerbern S. (ed.), Jüdische Schriften in ihrem antik-jüdischen und urchristlichen Kontext (Studien zu den Jüdischen Schriften aus hellenistisch-römischer Zeit 1. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2002), 35–42.
Millar, F., ‘The background to the Maccabean revolution: Reflections on Martin Hengel’s “Judaism and Hellenism”’, JJS 29 (1978), 1–21.
Millard, A.R., Reading and writing in the time of Jesus (The biblical seminar 69. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000).
Momigliano, A., Alien wisdom: the limits of Hellenization (Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1975). Momigliano, A., ‘Review of Hengel's Judentum und Hellenismus’, JTS 21 (1970), 149–53.
Momigliano, A., ‘Greek Culture and the Jews', in M. Finley (ed.), The Legacy of Greece: a New Appraisal (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), 325-46.
Momigliano, A., ‘Jews and Greeks', in Momigliano, A., Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism (Chicago / London: University of Chicago Press, 1994). O’Connell, Kevin G., ‘Review of Judentum und Hellenismus’, JBL 90 (1971), 228–31.
Rajak, Tessa, ‘Jews and Greeks: The invention and exploitation of polarities in the nineteenth century’, In The Jewish dialogue with Greece and Rome. Studies in cultural and social interaction (Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums 48; Leiden: Brill, 2001), 535-557.
Rajak, Tessa, ‘The Hasmoneans and the Uses of Hellenism’, in P.R. Davies (ed.), A tribute to Geza Vermes (Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series 100. Sheffield: Sheffield Acad. Press, 1990), 261–280.
Rappaport, U., ‘On the Hellenization of the Hasmoneans’, Tarbiz 60 (1991), 477–503 (Hebrew)
Rappaport, U., Hellenization of the Hasmoneans’, in Menachem Mor (ed.), Jewish Assimilation, Acculturation and Accommodation: Past Traditions, Current Issues and Future Prospects. Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium of the Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization held on Sunday–Monday, September 24–25, 1989 (Lanham, New York and London: University Press of America, 1991), 1–13.
Schwartz, S. ‘On the autonomy of Judaea in the fourth and third centuries B.C.E.’, JJS 45 (1994) 157-168.
Schwartz, S. ‘Israel and the nations roundabout; 1 Maccabees and the Hasmonean expansion’, JJS 42 (1991) 16-38.
Schwartz, S. ‘The Hellenization of Jerusalem and Shechem’, in M. Goodman (ed.), Jews in a Graeco-Roman World (Oxford, 1998), 37-45.
Schwartz, S., Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. (Princeton / Oxford: Princeton University Press 2001). Seow, Choon-Leong (1997), Ecclesiastes. A new translation with introduction and commentary. Anchor Bible, 18c. New York: Doubleday.
Sevenster, J. (1968) Do you know Greek? How much Greek could the first Jewish Christians have known? (Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 19; Leiden: Brill, 1968). [knowledge of Greek even by Jesus]
Shavit, Y., Athens in Jerusalem: classical antiquity and Hellenism in the making of the modern secular Jew, translated by Chaya Naor and Niki Werner (London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1997).
Smith, M. (1956) ‘Palestinian Judaism in the First Century’, in M. Davis (ed.), Israel: Its Role in Civilization (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1956), pp. 67–81.
Smith, M. (1971) Palestinian parties and politics that shaped the Old Testament (New York : Columbia University Press, 1971).
Stern, M., Studies in Jewish History: The Second Temple Period (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi, 1991), pp. 3 – 21 (Hebrew).
Stern, M., ‘Review of M. Hengel, Judentum und Hellenismus‘, (Hebrew) Kiriyat Sofer
Tcherikover, V., Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews (Reprint: Hendrickson Publishers, 1999).
Treu, K., ‘Die Bedeutung des Griechischen über die Juden im römischen Reich’, Kairos NF 15, Hft. 1/2 (1973), 123–44.
Will, E. & Orrieux, C., Ioudaïsmos-hellènismos: essai sur le judaïsme judéen à l'époque hellénistique (Nancy : Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1986).