Did Moses Speak Attic: Jewish Historiography and Scripture in the Hellenistic Period

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A stimulating debate responding to the question 'Is the Bible a Hellenistic book'. The answers range from qualified agreement to outright rejection. Is the Bible a Hellenistic book The essays in this volume respond to that challenging question, formulated by Niels Peter Lemche, and offer everything from qualified agreement to vociferous opposition. In so doing, they debate and illuminate the many features of Jewish writing in the Second Temple period, including not only the scriptures themselves and their own history, but the non-canonized literature of the late Second-Temple period. As with all the volumes in this pioneering series, the editor, Lester Grabbe, introduces and reflects upon the discussion and its implications for one of the most controversial topics in current biblical studies.

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"This is an important readable survey of a contentious issue." --Theological Book Review Feed the Minds
"Grabbe and his colleagues merit congratulations for focusing attention seriously on the methodological problems and pitfalls involved in reconstructing the historical setting for biblical texts- and in assessing their reliability in turn for the reconstruction of historical Israel... This vigorous debates recorded in the pages of this fine collection will sharpen thinking on basic issues of approach and lead to more sophisticated formulation of methodologies." -Erich S. Gruen, Review of Biblical Literature, October 2004 * Review of Biblical Literature *

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Lester L. Grabbe is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull. He is founder and convenor of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology. A recent book is Ancient Israel:What Do We Know and How Do We Know it