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Article: Hebraism and Hellenism reconsidered.
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- March 22, 1994
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"ARAYNGEFALEN VIA A YOVEN IN A SUKEH!"
This widespread Yiddish saying--"Fallen like a Greek into a sukkah!"--shows how far apart, at least in the popular Jewish mind of yesteryear, are Greek and Jewish cultures. The Latin Church Father Tertullian, in the early third century, had already summarized the incompatibility of Hebraism and Hellenism in his famous phrase, "Quid Athenae cum Hierosolymis?"--"What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem?" The gap has become the subject of a range of jokes, such as the one about the Jew and the Greek who were boastfully comparing notes. Said the Greek: "They were digging recently in Athens, and do you know what they found? Wires. ...
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