The Jews of Egypt from Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian - Hardcover

Modrzejewski, Joseph Meleze

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0567097390 ISBN 13: 9780567097392

Publisher: T.& T.Clark Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

A history of the Jews on Elephantine, the apogee of Jewish culture under the Ptolemies, and the catastrophe under the Romans.

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Review

Urbane, intelligent, and well-researched . . . more than ample for a well-rounded view of Jewish history in ancient Egypt. -- Library Journal
Urbane, intelligent, and well-researched . . . more than ample for a well-rounded view of Jewish history in ancient Egypt. -- "Library Journal

"Urbane, intelligent, and well-researched . . . more than ample for a well-rounded view of Jewish history in ancient Egypt."--Library Journal

-Urbane, intelligent, and well-researched . . . more than ample for a well-rounded view of Jewish history in ancient Egypt.---Library Journal

From the Back Cover

Professor Joseph Meleze Modrzejewski, a papyrologist as well as a historian, uses the clear light of scientific analysis to illuminate the reality underlying our image of the past. The biblical account and Jewish and pagan literary texts are juxtaposed with the discoveries of a century of archaeological and papyrological research that unearthed the edicts of emperors as well as the humble correspondence of common people, inscriptions on shells in Aramaic and on tombstones in Greek. The author comments when necessary but, for the most part, lets the documents speak for themselves. In a tantalizing epilogue, Modrzejewski takes a long, probing, and provocative look at a turning point in Western civilization: the brief but crucial episode when budding Christianity and the Alexandrian Jews parted company.

Edition details

• Publisher: T.& T.Clark Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567097390
• ISBN 13: 9780567097392
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260