Greek education and cultural identity in Greek-speaking Judaism: The Jewish-Greek historiographers

Marieke Dhont
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The style of the Jewish-Greek historiographers Eupolemus and Demetrius has often been evaluated as “bad Greek.” This is generally seen as evidence of their lack of education. The negative views on the language of Demetrius and Eupolemus are illustrative of a broader issue in the study of Hellenistic Judaism: language usage has been a key element in the discussion on the societal position of Jews in the Hellenistic world. In this article, I assess the style of the historiographers in the context of post-classical Greek, and conclude that their language reflects standard Hellenistic Greek. The linguistic analysis then becomes a starting point to reflect on the level of integration of Jews in the Greek-speaking world as well as to consider the nature of Jewish multilingualism in the late Second Temple period.
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希腊语犹太教中的希腊教育和文化认同:犹太-希腊历史学家
犹太-希腊历史学家Eupolemus和Demetrius的风格经常被评价为“糟糕的希腊人”。这通常被视为他们缺乏教育的证据。德米特里厄斯和欧波列谟对语言的负面看法说明了希腊化犹太教研究中的一个更广泛的问题:语言使用一直是讨论犹太人在希腊化世界中的社会地位的一个关键因素。在这篇文章中,我在后古典希腊语的背景下评估了历史学家的风格,并得出结论,他们的语言反映了标准的希腊化希腊语。然后,语言学分析成为反思犹太人在希腊语世界中的融合水平以及考虑第二圣殿后期犹太人使用多种语言的性质的起点。
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期刊介绍: The last twenty years have witnessed some remarkable achievements in the study of early Jewish literature. Given the ever-increasing number and availability of primary sources for these writings, specialists have been producing text-critical, historical, social scientific, and theological studies which, in turn, have fuelled a growing interest among scholars, students, religious leaders, and the wider public. The only English journal of its kind, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha was founded in 1987 to provide a much-needed forum for scholars to discuss and review most recent developments in this burgeoning field in the academy.
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