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One of the most creative and consequential collisions in Wester culture involved the encounter of Judaism with Hellenism. In this widely acclaimed study of the Jews who lived in Hellenistic Eqypt, 'between Athens and Jerusalem,' JOhn J. Collins examines the literature of Hellenistic Judaism, treating not only the introductory questions of date, authorship, and provenance but also the lager question of Jewish identity in the Greco-Roman world.
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