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- Title
The Homeland and the Legitimation of the Diaspora: Egyptian Jewish Origin Stories in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods.
- Authors
Trotter, Jonathan
- Abstract
How diasporans tell the story of their origin in the homeland and how they came to their new home abroad is just as important as the historical context(s) in which the diaspora community was created. This study draws attention to one common strategy employed by Egyptian Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman periods (in the Letter of Aristeas, the writings of Philo of Alexandria, and 3 Maccabees) when remembering and (re)creating accounts of their origins in the diaspora in ways that legitimized life abroad: the use of diaspora-homeland connections and comparisons.
- Subjects
JEWISH diaspora; HELLENISTIC Period, Greece, 323-146 B.C.; ROMAN Period, Great Britain, 55 B.C.-449 A.D.; MACCABEES; FOUNDATION myths
- Publication
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, 2018, Vol 28, Issue 2, p91
- ISSN
0951-8207
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0951820718823394