גרסה מקוונת לספר זה אפשר לקנות כאן
What
were the political, social and intellectual relations between different
religious groups in the Hellenistic and Roman world? David Rokeah suggests that
they were marked by ongoing propaganda wars, and that the pagan-Jewish polemic
served as the foundation for the subsequent pagan-Christian polemic. He proves
that the Jews were not a party of the pagan-Christian polemic, but that their
very existence and independent attitude towards Christianity and paganism
alike, their holy writings and those of Hellenistic Jewry, all helped to shape
the pagan-Christian conflict. Against a historical background, the author
examines specific philosophical-theological motifs of the polemic, such as
religious myth, divine providence, and the election of Israel. A wealth of
material from Greek, Latin and Hebrew sources presented in a fresh English
translation, so as to help the reader sense the spirit of this important age in
world history.