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| Introduction |
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1 | (20) |
| PART I THE FIRST MIRROR |
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Waking the Dead---Greece as an Ideal and an Exemplar |
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21 | (19) |
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Hellenism and Hebraism: The Two Poles of the World |
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40 | (18) |
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Israel and Greece: Reviving a Legendary Past |
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58 | (21) |
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`Greek Wisdom' as Secular Knowledge and Science |
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79 | (40) |
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Japheth in the Tents of Shem: The Reception of the Classical Heritage in Modern Hebrew Culture |
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119 | (36) |
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The Moral Dimension: Commonality and Particularity |
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155 | (33) |
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Worlds without Compromise: Reconstructing the Disparities |
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188 | (32) |
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Have Jews Imagination? Jews and the Creative Arts |
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220 | (61) |
| PART II THE SECOND MIRROR |
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The Nature of the Hellenistic Mirror |
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281 | (25) |
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Judaism and Hellenism in Palestine and Alexandria: Two Models of a National and Cultural Encounter |
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306 | (31) |
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Homeric Books and Hellenistic Culture in the World of the Sages |
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337 | (18) |
| PART III ATHENS IN JERUSALEM |
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Back to History: The Secularization of the Ancient Jewish Past |
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355 | (26) |
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The Children of Japheth (Aryans) and the Children of Shem (Semites): Race and Innate Nationalism |
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381 | (22) |
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The People and its Land: Country, Landscape, and Culture |
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403 | (29) |
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A `Polis' in Jerusalem: The Jewish State |
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432 | (17) |
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The New Jewish Culture: Ideal and Reality |
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449 | (24) |
| Conclusion: What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? |
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473 | (8) |
| Bibliography |
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481 | (66) |
| Index |
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