Letters from home : the creation of diaspora in Jewish antiquity /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Simkovich, Malka Z., author.
Imprint:	University Park, Pennsylvania : Eisenbrauns, [2024] ©2024
Description:	xiii, 214 pages : map ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Jewish diaspora. Jews -- Egypt -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D. Jews -- Judaea (Region) -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D. Jewish letters -- Egypt. Jewish letters -- Judaea (Region)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13483057

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Varying Form of Title:	Creation of diaspora in Jewish antiquity
ISBN:	9781646022748 1646022742 9781646022755 1646022750
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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"--

Table of Contents:

Sacred writings and the question of exile
"A letter they did not send us" : an early case study of Judea-diaspora relations
The Judean invention of the diaspora
The Hellenistic strategies of Jewish letter writers
"Open your heart to His law" : Judean letters to Egypt in 2 Maccabees 1:1-2:18
"For those living abroad who wish to gain learning" : the transformations of Esther and Ben Sira into Judean correspondence
"There is open shame upon us" : fantasies of exile in the letter of Baruch
"A sign of friendship and love" : fantasies of Judea in the letter of Aristeas
"Boundless and immeasurable Earth" : the prayers of 3 Maccabees.

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