Shem in the Tents of Japhet - Essays on the Encounter of Judaism and Hellenism

These essays, by some of today's greatest scholars of Judaism and Hellenism in antiquity, explore a variety of ways in which these two great civilizations interacted. Taken together, a large, variegated picture of the cultural interaction that was to prove so crucial for the later history of Judaism and Christianity.

About the author

James L. Kugel is Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Among his publications are: In Potiphar's House (Harvard University Press, 1994), The Bible as It Was (Harvard University Press, 1997), The Idea of Biblical Poetry (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998) and Great Poems of the Bible (Free Press, 1999).

Product details

• Assisted by: James L Kugel (Editor), James L. Kugel (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2002
• EAN: 9789004125148
• ISBN: 978-90-04-12514-8
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 245 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 662 g
• Series: Supplements to the Journal for
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism