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Aphrodite and the Rabbis: How the Jews Adapted Roman Culture to Create Judaism as We Know It
Burton L. Visotzky
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| #93901 in Books | Visotzky Burton L | 2016-09-13 | 2016-09-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .37 x.92 x6.44l,.0 | File type: PDF | 256 pages | Aphrodite and the Rabbis How the Jews Adapted Roman Culture to Create Judaism as We Know It||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Rome & Jersualem|By Eric Maroney|In Aphrodite and the Rabbis: How the Jews Adapted Roman Culture to Create Judaism as We Know It, Burton Visotzky provides us with both a sweeping and focused view of how Greco-Roman culture worked to mold rabbinical Judaism.
For example, the Passover Seder is quite purposefully designed after Greco-Roman style symposiums (with more de|||"Visotzky’s witty narrative takes the reader on a tour of rabbinic legends, discussion of values, art and architecture (illustrated with photographs from archaeological finds) in its attempt to claim that Judaism is a thoroughly western religion." ―Co
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- The Passover Seder is a Greco-Roman symposium banquet - The Talmud rabbis presented themselves as Stoic philosophers - Synagogue buildings were Roman basilicas - Hellenistic rhetoric professors educated sons of well-to-do Jews - Zeus-Helios is depicted in synagogue mosaics across ancient Israel - The Jewish courts were named after the Roman political institution, the Sanhedrin - In Israel there were synagogues where ...
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