Dialogues and tensions in Judaism of the Hellenistic Age

• Autor(a) principal: Carmo, Solange Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Andrade, Aíla L. Pinheiro de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Horizonte - Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2019v17n52p249
• topic: judaism; diaspora; hellenism; literature of resistance; justification literature; Religion Science; Theology; judaísmo; diáspora; helenismo; literatura de resistência; literatura de justificação; Judaísmo-Bíblia

The article discusses the concept, the emergence and the kind of Jewish Diasporas with emphasis in the Hellenistic Age (from 312 BC to 31 BC). Then, it demonstrates the different ways in which the Jews received the Hellenistic influence. The Jews who lived in Egypt, and were subject to the dominion of the Ptolemies, maintained dialogue with Greek culture, assimilating it and taking advantage of it to spread his writings. On the other hand, Jews who resided in Israel, subject to the rule of the Seleucids, rejected tightly the Hellenic culture imposed by the dominators, because it threatened the Jewish identity. From the encounter and confrontation of the Jewish and Hellenic cultures enormous range of literary works has emerged, both in defense of Hellenism (justification literature), and rejection of it (literature of resistance). Brief information is given about these two kinds of literature. Some of these writings are in the bible.