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This Volume Gathers Sixteen Essays On Monarchy And Power In The Hellenistic Period And Charts A New Approach To Hellenistic History By Focusing Attention On Biblical And Jewish Evidence And Reading That Evidence In New Ways. The Essays Consider The Kings, Queens, And Power Figures Of The Hellenistic Dynasties, As Well As Ancient Israelite Kings, The Babylonian And Persian Rulers Of The Bible, Parthians, And Romans. The Volume Also Represents A New Kind Of Interpretation Of The Greek Bible (septuagint) And Of The Jewish Literature Of The Period, Setting Them In The Context Of Hellenistic Political Thought And Practice.--jacket. 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

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Author

Tessa Rajak; Sarah Pearce; James Aitken; Jennifer Dines (editors)

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520250840

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Judaism, History, Religion