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Article: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism: Jewish and Christian Ethnicity in Ancient Palestine.
- Article from:
- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
- Author:
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Historians have often given an account of the history of the Jewish people in the late Second Temple period, a subject of vital interest both to Jews and Christians. Mendels, a professor of ancient history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is well qualified to tell the tale once again as part of this relatively new Anchor Bible series aimed at making contemporary biblical scholarship accessible to a wide audience.
Mendels organizes his version of the period from Ben Sira to Bar Kokhba, from 200 B.C.E. to 135 C.E., around the theme of "nationalism," recognizing that this is a potentially problematic category that might import anachronistic presuppositions into ...