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In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food. Who were these Hellenistic Jews and Hebraic Jews? What was the difference between the two groups?
The Hebraic Jews prided themselves on the fact that they had always lived in the land of the patriarchs and that they used the language that their fathers spoke. They were near the temple and regularly worshiped there. On the other hand, the Hellenistic Jews from other parts of the world were jealous of the first group and made to feel like ...
Hellenistic Judaism was a form of Judaism in classical antiquity that combined Jewish religious tradition with elements of Hellenistic culture and religion.
This distinction separated Hellenistic Jews from the wider Greek culture because they refused to honor shrines, temples, and gods that did not pertain to the God of Israel. According to one historian, adaptation to Hellenic culture did not require a compromise of Jewish precepts or conscience.
When Jews began to abandon their noble ideas of society and embrace Greek values, the clash of civilizations intensified and eventually erupted into civil war. At that time the Hasmoneans,...
The cultural phenomenon that we call Hellenism had a lasting impact on Judaism and the Jewish people. Hellenism was a synthesis of Greek (Hellenic) culture with the native cultures of the Near East.
In the present essay I consider the relationship between language and self-definition for Jews in the Byzantine Empire. In investigating the relationship of Hebraism and Hellenism it is inter-esting to consider the real-life case of the Jews of Byzantium. Byzantine Jewry, too long neglected and almost ignored by modern scholarship, is
