Ethnicity in Hellenistic Egypt |
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| Editor:
| Bilde, Per
Engberg-Pedersen, Troels
Hannestad, Lise
Zahle, Jan |
| Author:
| Bilde, Per |
| ISBN: | 978-87-7288-359-5 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1992 |
| Publisher: | Aarhus University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $27.00 |
Book Description:
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The third volume in the `Studies in Hellenistic Civilization' series contains eight essays arising from the second international conference organized by the Danish research project on the Hellenistic period in 1990. Contributors include: U Ostergard (What is national and ethnic identity?); D J Thompson (Language and literacy in early Hellenistic Egypt); J Blomquist (Alexandrian science: the case of Eratosthenes); K Goudriaan (Ethnical strategies in Graeco-Roman Egypt); A Kasher (The...
More DescriptionThe third volume in the `Studies in Hellenistic Civilization' series contains eight essays arising from the second international conference organized by the Danish research project on the Hellenistic period in 1990. Contributors include: U Ostergard (What is national and ethnic identity?); D J Thompson (Language and literacy in early Hellenistic Egypt); J Blomquist (Alexandrian science: the case of Eratosthenes); K Goudriaan (Ethnical strategies in Graeco-Roman Egypt); A Kasher (The civic status of the Jews in Prolemaic Egypt); P Borgen (Philo and the Jews in Alexandria); C R Holladay (Jewish responses to Hellenistic culture); J P Sorensen (Native reactions to foreign rule and culture in religious literature).