Elias Bickerman on the Hellenizing Reformers: A Case Study of an Unconvincing Case.

The article seeks to understand the failure of Elias J. Bickerman, a historian of Judaism in antiquity, to interpret his thesis suggesting that Hellenizing Jew reformers were responsible for the initiative for the persecution of Greek King Antiochus IV that led to the decrees that provoked the Macca...

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Published in:Jewish Quarterly Review Vol. 97; no. 2; pp. 149 - 180
Main Author: Baumgarten, Albert I.
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press Spring2007
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