Aphrodite and the Rabbis: How the Jews Adapted Roman Culture to Create Judaism as We Know It by Burton L. Visotzky

Aphrodite and the Rabbis: How the Jews Adapted Roman Culture to Create Judaism as We Know It

Burton L. Visotzky

256 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative reflective slow-paced
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Hard to believe but true: - 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 ...

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