Akkadica
Assyriological Center
Georges Dossin
Georges Dossin
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Akkadica Assyriological Center
Georges Dossin
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Conspectus Librorum - Book Review:
ISBN 3-525-53058-7 (Göttingen), ISSN 1015-1850, pp. X + 199, 14 plates. List price: 46,90 Euro. (in German) Compilation The present book starts with a list of contents, followed by a foreword from the editors and continues with six papers discussing the possible traces of Greek influences in ancient Israel/Palestine. The papers were presented at the interdisciplinary and international symposium "The Influence of Greece on the Religion and Culture of Ancient Israel" which was organized on April 29 th, 2003 at the Evangelical Theology Faculty of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In the first contribution "Israel unmittelbar vor und nach Alexander dem Grossen. Geschichtlicher Wandel und archäologischer Befund"(p.1-27) Hans-Peter Kuhnen argues that the archaeological dating mainly based on pottery and other finds should be considered inadequate when used to indicate the period "before" and "after" Alexander the Great in Palestine which in fact includes three generations in which there were certainly changes in architectural features. He illustrates his argument with a rather amusing, imaginary story. The second article "Griechischer Einfluss auf Palästina in vorhellenistischer Zeit"(p.29-60) is presented by Robert Wenning who also wrote the next article "Nachweis der attischen Keramik aus Palästina. Aktualisierter Zwischenbericht".*(p.61-72) in which he gives a list of archaeological sites where pre-Hellenistic pottery and pottery-fragments were found. Each site in the list is followed by one or more useful bibliographic references. Chapter 4 "Polis und Politeia. Zur politischen Organisation Jerusalems und Jehuds in der Perserzeit" was contributed by Monika Bernett (p.73-129). As the title of the fifth article indicates, Sebastian Grätz discusses a rather complicated religious and historical subject, "Esra 7 im Kontext hellenistischer Politik. Der königliche Euergetismus in hellenitischer Zeit als ideeller Hintergrund von Esr 7,12-26" (p.131-154). The final chapter by Dieter Georgi is dedicated to Jewish Syncretism (p.155-183). A selected bibliography concludes the book. There is no index. Some articles contain illustratrations. Ingrid Swinnen Vrije Universiteit Brussel |