Letters from Home - The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity

"Investigates rhetorical strategies Egyptian and Judean Jews used in their writings about life outside the Land of Israel, charting the development of the contested idea of diaspora and the making and breaking of boundaries that took place within Jewish letters of the Hellenistic era"--

About the author

Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich is Crown-Ryan Chair of Jewish Studies and Director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. She is the author of The Making of Jewish Universalism: From Exile to Alexandria and Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism.

Product details

• Authors: Malka Z. Simkovich
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2024
• EAN: 9781646022755
• ISBN: 978-1-64602-275-5
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Illustrations: Karten
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; RELIGION / Judaism / General, Judaism, BCE to c 500 CE, 4th century, c 399 to c 300 BCE, 1st century, c 99 to c 1 BCE, 3rd century, c 299 to c 200 BCE