Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period:
(Abridged Edition)
Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough
Translated by Jacob Neusner

Paper | 1992 | This edition is out of print | ISBN13: 978-0-691-01922-2
375 pp.
Cloth | 1989 | This edition is out of print | ISBN13: 978-0-691-09967-5
328 pp.

This volume presents the most important portions of Erwin Goodenough's classic thirteen-volume work, a magisterial attempt to encompass human spiritual history in general through the study of Jewish symbols in particular. Revealing that the Jewish religion of the period was much more varied and complex than the extant Talmudic literature would lead us to believe, Goodenough offered evidence for the existence of a Hellenistic-Jewish mystic mythology far closer to the Qabbalah than to rabbinical Judaism.

Review:

"Since [Jacob Neusner's one-volume abridgement] presents the fruits of Goodenough's decades-long study of ancient Jewish art, climaxed by his study of the third-century synagogue at Dura-Europas, it is probably the best introduction to Goodenough's mature thought. Neusner contributes a twenty-nine-page foreword that explains the enduring importance of the entire thirteen-volume work."--David M. Hay, Studia Philonica Annual 1

Series:

• Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period
• Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology

Subject Areas:

• Mind, Body, Spirit
• Classics
• Religion

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