Martin Hengel, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of New Testament and Early Judaism for the University of Tuebingen, Germany. He is the author of many books including 'Victory Over Violence & Was Jesus a Revolutionist?', 'Between Jesus and Paul', 'Judaism and Hellenism', 'Studies in the Gospel of Mark' and 'The Hellenization of Judea in the First Century After Christ'. Dr. Hengel's most recent books include 'Paul Between Damascus and Antioch' (together with Anna Maria Schwemer) and 'The Four Gospels and the One Gospel of Jesus Christ'.
Martin Hengel presents here, in a fine English translation, an
excellent, comprehensive study of the impact of Hellenism on
Judaism in the intertestamental period. Hengel has mastered all the
primary material and given us a new, synthetic picture of the
encounter, at all its different levels. 'Choice'
Hengel writes with equal mastery on the political, economic,
intellectual, and religious aspects of the encounter between the
Jews and the Greeks and has succeeded admirably in presenting the
detailed information essential for the appraisal of the period
without ever allowing the momentum of his argument to be lost. P.R.
Ackroyd
Hengel's fine book is a freshly thought-out and thoroughly
researched study which cuts across the customary network of
traditional opinion and unsubstantiated guesswork.... This will
certainly be a standard work for decades to come. James Barr
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