...The chapter compares Harnack’s account of the Hellenization of early Christianity with Florovsky’s account of the Westernization of Russian theology. Methodologically, these accounts shared many similarities, although theologically they were diametrically opposed. For Harnack, Hellenization...

... corresponds to the final architectural phase of the city. The chapter explains that Ai Khanum is a key element for understanding the Hellenization of the East. Ai Khanum Eucratideia Bernard P computer graphic imaging CG Ai Khanum French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan DAFA Ishizawa Mr Japan CG...

... subject to the anagraphê around 120. Later on, around the beginning of the Roman period, the presence of the scribes in every corner of the chôra played a key role in the widespread dissemination of the Greek legal document and the consequent Hellenization of the law...

...This chapter examines the theory advanced by the American scholar Shaye Cohen stating that the Greeks played a role in the formation of Judaism, and that Hellenization is the process that created the Jews. In his 1999 book The Beginnings of Jewishness, Cohen argues...

... Oscan culture Samnium and Samnites Cumae linen legion Capua Poseidonia Lucanians Naples realism Tarentum Arpi tomb of the Medusa Daunia Lecce Palmieri hypogeum Messapic battle scenes history Alexander the Great Darius painter Hellenization Baxandall Michael historical culture...

... to include the fourth century bce as well as the first three centuries ce in order to closely investigate the processes of cultural interaction often associated with the term Hellenism. It offers examples of the presence of adapted Greek cultural and political elements in the communities...

... material Figurines Heracles Inscriptions Seals Tyche Alexander the Great Apamea on the Orontes Arrian Boeotians Herodotus Kurdistan Red Sea Ships Transport networks Xerxes Tarsus Uruk Hellenization Countryside Ethnic identity India Mosul Nineveh Adiabene Qalatga Darband Urbanism...

... consistently applied, such as circumcision, immersion, and in earlier periods, when the Temple existed, animal sacrifice was required. With the fall of the Persian Empire in 333 b.c.e., Hellenization permeated the life of people in a vast expanse of territory. With the spread of the Greek language and culture...

... freedmen slaves Adriatic Sea Greek colonies Hellenization Magna Grecia Tyrrhenian Sea allies pottery transportation routes Daunians Daunia Lucania Lucanians Luna Pisae Umbria Umbrians Volaterrae Apennine Mountains epigraphy Tuscany economy Imperial period Pietrabbondante...

...This chapter looks at the impact of political rule on Jewish family life in the early period of the Roman empire, charting the relatively minor changes in circumcision, onomastics, and burial practices and drawing attention to the crucial role of Hellenization. The family in Roman Egypt appears...

...: C.N.R.S. Baumgarten, Albert I.   2010 . “ Hellenism and Judaism before and after World War II: Two Case Studies—A. D. Momigliano and E. J. Bickerman. ” In “Follow the Wise”: Studies in Jewish History and Culture in Honor of Lee I. Levine , edited by Zeev Weiss et al., 3–23...

... section describes the growing state intervention, examining the administration of temples, priestly privileges, temple asylum, and dynastic and imperial cults. The fourth section looks at the impact of the Greek, describing interpreatio graeca, the Hellenization of the gods, and astrology...

... discusses Pope Benedict XVI's claim that the Western tradition is imbued with rationality and threatened by “outside” forces, along with his thesis on the importance of the “Hellenization” of Judaism as the founding condition, or “event,” of Christianity; how this “event” brings with it a version...

... of the first period covering the fourth to the seventh centuries, there was a progressive Hellenization of Syriac literary culture in general that extends to virtually all areas of literary productivity. The chapter also illustrates the time when the Arab invasions cut Syriac Christianity off from the Greek...

...After Alexander’s conquest, Phoenicia was at the heart of a cultural process whose complexity has not been adequately explained by the concept of “Hellenization.” This chapter offers a critical questioning of this concept and a more fine-grained analysis of the cultural dynamics that resulted from...

...This chapter details the transition of Judea and its environs from Persian to Greek rule during the reign of Alexander and his immediate successors. It then follows, after the fracturing of Alexander’s empire, the conditions of the region under Ptolemaic rule and the increasing Hellenization...

... is seen as symbolically marking the end of the ‘transnational patriotism’ moment in the Adriatic, a declaration of the irreversible dissolution of its common Venetian cultural space. The de-Venetization, Hellenization, and Orthodoxization of the Ionian Islands signified the completion of the transition...

...The area called Phoinikè by the Greeks always had many contacts with the Hellenic cities and their culture. Nonetheless, after Alexander’s conquest, the Phoenician kingdoms underwent deep changes that need to be reassessed through new conceptual tools, such as the notion of middle ground, which...

... and discusses the distinctive features of Roman translation theory and practice (e.g. concern with control rather than fidelity, disinterest in literal translation). It also contextualizes poetic translation within issues central to Roman culture more broadly, in particular hellenization, bilingualism...

...For many decades the reigning narrative for the spread of Greek and Phoenician culture and settlements around the Mediterranean Sea involved colonial models of unidirectional culture spread, typically evoked by phrases such as “Hellenization.” By the late twentieth century, however, postcolonial...