A Thousand Years of Jewish History / From the days of Alexander the Great to the Moslem Conquest of Spain

Chapter 295: Transcriber's note:

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The narrative surveys roughly a thousand years of Jewish life beginning with Hellenistic influence and Persian antecedents, and follows political and religious transformations under Greek and Roman rule. It recounts struggles for religious fidelity and independence, the rise of sects and institutions, the creation and circulation of apocryphal and biblical texts, and the emergence of rabbinic law, lore, and academies. Revolts, sieges, and the remaking of communal structures after Roman suppression are set alongside intellectual figures who blended Jewish thought with Hellenistic philosophy. The account concludes by tracing diaspora communities and the transmission of Jewish law and culture into the early medieval period culminating in Iberian encounters under Muslim rule.

Transcriber's note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed.

Missing page numbers are page numbers that were not shown in the original text.

The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs, thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations.

Mismatched quotation marks are not corrected if it is not sufficiently clear where the missing quotation mark should be placed.

In the Index, hyphenation has been changed from "goatskin" to "goat-skin".

In the book the table of Contents lists the "Preface to revised edition" as on page v and the Introduction as on page vi. In the book, the Introduction comes before the Preface on unnumbered pages.

In the "Contents" for Chapter XLII, the transcriber has changed the numbers from 305-311 to 304-310 to conform to the book.