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Informationen zum Autor Yaacov Shavit is Professor of the History of the Jewish People! Tel Aviv University. Klappentext From the 18th Century on! Jews seeking to aquire a modern identify began to take a new interest in classical antiquity and Hellenistic civilization as a key to the secular Jewish culture they sought to develop. It was of course not the 'real' classical Greece to which they aspired but rather its idealized image as perceived through contemporary eyes! but this image became an important element in the search for a new Jewish self-awareness. For the modernizing Jew! "Greek" became a metaphor for the secular culture of modern Europe in its various forms. Zusammenfassung 'Ambitious! elaborately structured and wide-ranging ... Shavit's book will be the fundamental work on Jewish Hellenism for a long time to come.' Tessa Rajak! Times Literary Supplement Inhaltsverzeichnis Translator's Note Introduction PART I The First Mirror 1 Waking the Dead-Greece as an Ideal and an Exemplar 2 Hellenism and Hebraism: The Two Poles of the World 3 Israel and Greece: Reviving a Legendary Past 4 'Greek Wisdom' as Secular Knowledge and Science 5 Japheth in the Tents of Shem: The Reception of the Classical Heritage in Modern Hebrew Culture 6 The Moral Dimension: Commonality and Particularity 7 Worlds without Compromise: Reconstructing the Disparities 8 Have Jews Imagination? Jews and the Creative Arts PART II The Second Mirror 9 The Nature of the Hellenistic Mirror 10 Judaism and Hellenism in Palestine and Alexandria: Two Models of a National and Cultural Encounter 11 Homeric Books and Hellenistic Culture in the World of the Sages PART III Athens in Jerusalem 12 Back to History: The Secularization of the Ancient Jewish Past 13 The Children of Japheth (Aryans) and the Children of Shem (Semites): Race and Innate Nationalism 14 The People and its Land: Country! Landscape! and Culture 15 A 'Polis' in Jerusalem: The Jewish State 16 The New Jewish Culture: Ideal and Reality Conclusion: What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? Bibliography Index ...
