{"title":"Artapanus: Judaica","authors":"Eve-Marie Becker","doi":"10.1515/9783110186604.297","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"“The mysterious and intriguing Artapanus haunts the byways of research on Hellenistic Judaism. Efforts to classify him end in frustration”1. This was the apt description that Erich S. Gruen recently gave of the problem and fascination of dealing with the early Jewish author Artapanus. Gruen expounds the reasons for the difficulties in research on Artapanus as follows: “Artapanus resists labels, eludes characterization and defies categories. He carries a Persian name, writes in Greek and has a Jewish perspective. His work jumbles genres and transforms traditions, blending history with fable, propaganda with fantasy, biblical narrative with pagan romance”2. Against this background, research on Artapanus seems, once more, to offer a present-day challenge.","PeriodicalId":393675,"journal":{"name":"Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature. Yearbook","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature. Yearbook","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110186604.297","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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“The mysterious and intriguing Artapanus haunts the byways of research on Hellenistic Judaism. Efforts to classify him end in frustration”1. This was the apt description that Erich S. Gruen recently gave of the problem and fascination of dealing with the early Jewish author Artapanus. Gruen expounds the reasons for the difficulties in research on Artapanus as follows: “Artapanus resists labels, eludes characterization and defies categories. He carries a Persian name, writes in Greek and has a Jewish perspective. His work jumbles genres and transforms traditions, blending history with fable, propaganda with fantasy, biblical narrative with pagan romance”2. Against this background, research on Artapanus seems, once more, to offer a present-day challenge.
神秘而迷人的阿尔塔帕努斯一直困扰着希腊化犹太教的研究。对他进行分类的努力以失败告终。这是埃里希·s·格伦(Erich S. Gruen)最近对与早期犹太作家阿尔塔帕努斯(Artapanus)打交道的问题和魅力所作的恰当描述。Gruen阐述了阿塔帕努斯研究困难的原因:“阿塔帕努斯抗拒标签,逃避表征,抗拒类别。他有一个波斯名字,用希腊文写作,有着犹太人的视角。他的作品混淆了流派,改变了传统,将历史与寓言、宣传与幻想、圣经叙事与异教浪漫结合在一起。在这样的背景下,对阿塔帕努斯的研究似乎再一次提出了当今的挑战。