C. BAY, A. ELLIS, J. MANIA, S. MOSCONE, L. TRÖGER ( eds.)
CARSON BAY works at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His research covers many aspects of Hellenistic Judaism, with a focus on its reception in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. ANTHONY ELLIS is a postdoc at the University of Bern. His research interests include ancient Greek religion, the history of the emotions, pre-modern attitudes towards forgery, and heresiology. JUDITH MANIA is a PhD candidate at the University of Bern. Her doctoral dissertation examines the Latin manuscripts of Flavius Josephus and their use by medieval Christian readers.
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SARA MOSCONE is a postdoc at the University of Bern, working on the biblical figure of Samuel in Judeo-Hellenistic sources. Her PhD explored the use of Josephus by the medieval historian Petrus Comestor. LENA TRÖGER is a PhD candidate at the University of Bern. Her doctoral thesis examines the influence of Josephus on the crusader chronicles of Fulcher of Chartres and William of Tyre.
C. BAY, A. ELLIS, J. MANIA, S. MOSCONE, L. TRÖGER ( eds.)
Jewish texts written in Greek laid the intellectual foundations of medieval European culture. But Hellenistic Judaism was an inheritance which long lay unclaimed by both Christians and rabbinic Jews, since each felt a deep ambivalence towards the Greek-speaking Judeans of antiquity. The earliest Jesus followers were Hellenistic Jews, and Greco-Jewish texts like the Septuagint, the Letter of Aristeas, and the works of Philo and Josephus laid down the tracks along which Christianity ran. Yet Christians treated Jews as a dangerous foreign body and handled their writings with suspicion. The relationship between Hellenistic and rabbinic Judaism was also far from simple. Greco-Jewish intellectuals are largely unmentioned in early rabbinic literature and their works were transmitted exclusively by Christians. When later Jews “ rediscovered ” Philo or Josephus, they found them embedded in anti-Jewish discourses of medieval Christianity. In spite of these unpromising beginnings, medieval Jews and Christians repeatedly folded the leaven of Hellenistic Judaism back into their own thought. This volume offers a series of case studies of the appropriation, adaption, and adoption of Hellenistic Jewish texts and ideas into the Christian and Jewish cultures of medieval Latin Europe.
The Medieval Afterlife of Hellenistic Judaism
The Medieval Afterlife of Hellenistic Judaism
The Medieval Afterlife of Hellenistic Judaism Reception & Reinvention in Western Europe