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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Jewish History and Contemporary Judaism
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Noah Hacham
Coordinator Office Hours:
Wed. 12:15-13:10
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Noah Hacham
Course/Module description:
Egyptian Jewry was the largest and most important Jewish community in the diaspora in the Second Temple period, till 117 CE. The uniqueness of this community is that it existed and flourished alongside an independent Jewish State and Temple, a religious center in Jerusalem. The seminar will examine the history of this important community, will discuss the challenges that stood in front of her, the relations of this community with the gentile environment and with Jewish homeland, their spiritual and cultural life, their literature, and their administrative arrangements and leadership. We will read some papyri, a unique primary source for the history of Egypt. Considerable space will devoted to the diaspora revolt (116-117), which brought the end of this community.
Course/Module aims:
Understanding the history of Egyptian Jewry from Alexander the Great to the Diaspora revolt; understanding the historical processes in relation to this community at this time;
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
To analyze and annotate the historical processes of Egyptian Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman periods;
to analyze the various historical sources for the history of the Jews in Hellenistic Roman Egypt;
to get into historical conclusions from these sources
to analyze the complex reality and situation of Jews in the diaspora, and the historical dynamics of the development of Jewish existence in the diaspora in general and in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt in particular;
to sum up the complex relationship between Jews and the authorities in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
to understand the implications of global events on Jewish history;
to research independently historic problem, to present it in class and to write a paper on it
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
lectures, seminar
Course/Module Content:
1. Introduction: Egypt during the Hellenistic and Roman periods: an overview
2. Beginnings: Jewish settlement in Egypt
3. The legitimacy of the Jewish Diaspora: the third book of Maccabees.
4. The Translation of the Torah into Greek and the Letter of Aristeas
5. Temple of Onias: establishment and status in the Hellenistic and Roman periods
6. Tobiads and Egyptian Jewry
7. Dositheos son of Drimylos, Tiberius Julius Alexander
8. The contribution of Papyrology to the history of the Egyptian Jewry in the Hellenistic-Roman period.
9. 3 Maccabees C: an anti-Dionysian polemic
10. The civil status of the Jews of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt;
11. Jewish Politeuma in Heracleopolis
11.Ezekiel the tragedian
12.Philo and the events in the reign of Gaius Caligula
13. Egypt - the cradle of anti-Semitism?
14. Martyrs of Alexandria
15. The debate about the Exodus
16. The Diaspora revolt against Trajan (116-117)
17. Rabbinic literature on the Jews of Egypt
Required Reading:
Additional Reading Material:
אפלבאום, שמעון. יהודים ויוונים בקיריני הקדומה. ירושלים תשכ"ט. DS 122.3 A54
גוטמן, יהושע. הספרות היהודית ההלניסטית א-ב. ירושלים תשי"ח-תשכ"ג BM 485 G88
גולן, דוד. תולדות העולם ההלניסטי. ירושלים תשמ"ז. DF 235 G6
גרואן, אריק. גולה: יהודים בין יוונים ורומאים, תל אביב תשס"ד (עדיף הנוסח האנגלי המובא להלן) DS 122.2 G781 2004
כשר, אריה. יהודי מצרים ההלניסטית והרומית במאבקם על זכויותיהם, תל-אביב תשל"ט.
DS 135 E4 K38
כשר, אריה. נגד אפיון, תרגום מהמקור עם מבוא ופירושים, א-ב. ירושלים תשנ"ז. DS 122.24 J68 1996
צ'ריקובר, אביגדור. היהודים במצרים בתקופה ההלניסטית-הרומית לאור הפאפירולוגיה, ירושלים תשכ"ג2. DS 135 E4 T35 1963
צ'ריקובר, אביגדור. אלף שנות היסטוריה יהודית במצרים (תרגום: א' רפפורט), 1974. DS 135 E4 T361
צ'ריקובר, אביגדור. היהודים והיוונים בתקופה ההלניסטית, ירושלים תל-אביב תשכ"ג
DS 122.22 T35 1963
רפפורט, אוריאל. 'היהודים במצרים', מ' שטרן (עורך), הפזורה היהודית בעולם ההלניסטי-רומי [ההיסטוריה של עם ישראל, י], תשמ"ג, עמ' 53-21 DS 134 H58
Bar-Kochva Bezalel. Pseudo-Hacataeus On the Jews: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora. Berkeley, Los Angles & London 1996 DS 115.5 B36
Bell, Harold Idris . Egypt, From Alexander the Great to the Arab Conquest. Oxford 1948 DT 92 B46
Pucci Ben Zeev, Miriam, Diaspora Judaism in Turmoil: 116/117 CE: Ancient Sources and Modern Insights, Leuven 2005 DS 122.3 P82 2005
Bevan, Edwyn Robert. The House of Ptolemy: A History of Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynasty. London 1927 [&eq;Chicago 1968] DT 92 B47 [DT 92 B48 1968]
Barclay, John M. G. Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora. Edinburgh 1996 DS 135 M43 B36
Collins John J. Between Athens and Jerusalem, Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora. New York 1983.
Frey, P. Jean-Baptiste. Corpus Inscriptiomum Iudaicarum, II. Roma 1952 CN 745 F7 [Y5]
Gruen Erich S. Heritage and Helleenism. Berkeley, Los Angles & London 1998 BM 176 G78 H46
Gruen Erich S., Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans, Cambridge 2002 DS 122.2 G78 2002
Hengel Martin. Judaism and Hellesim, Studies in their Encounter in Palestine during the Early Hellenistic Period. I-II, London & Philadelphia 1974.
Hölbl Günther. A history of the Ptolemaic Empire.London & New York 2001
DT 92 H6513 2001
Horbury William & Noy David. Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt. Cambridge 1992 DS 135 E4 H67
Meleze Modrzejewski, Joseph. The Jews of Egypt, From Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian. Philadelphia & Jerusalem 1995 DS 135 E4 M643
Schäfer, Peter. Judeophobia, Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World, Cambridge & London 1998
Tcherikover Victor A., Fuks Alexander & Menahem Stern. Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum. I-III, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1957-1964. PA 3301 T37
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 10 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 80 %
Assignments 10 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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