In this thoughtful and penetrating study, Sara Raup Johnson investigates the creation of historical fictions in a wide range of Hellenistic Jewish texts. Survey

This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature and history of early J

The first Greek text of the Epistle of Aristeas published in more than a century The Greek text Epistle of Aristeas is a Jewish work of the late Hellenistic per

The essays in this volume examine the relationship between ancient fiction in the Greco-Roman world and early Jewish and Christian narratives. They consider how

In these fictive creations, Jewish writers reinvented their own past, offering us vital insights into Jewish self-perception.