Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered (JSJSup 107)

The First Translation of the Torah and Its Effects (pp. 53-70); (3) How Much Hellenism in the Land of Israel? (pp. 71-102); (4) The Reshaping of Biblical Narrative in the Hellenistic Period (pp. 103-28); (5) Did Jews Reshape the Tale of the Exodus? (pp. 129-34); (6) Studies in the Ancient Jewish Mediterranean Diaspora (pp. 135-56). The book's title and introduction promise discussion of the interaction between Judaism and Hellenism, specifically Feldman's challenge of the thesis (of Erwin Goodenough and Martin Hengel) that Judaism in Palestine was "already significantly influenced by Hellenism in the third and second centuries b.c.e. . . . and that the distinction between Diaspora and Palestinian Judaism, so far as Hellenization is concerned, is blurred" (p. 1).