Hellenistic Inter-state Political Ethics and the Emergence of the Jewish State

Professor Doron Mendels (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2021
T.& T.Clark Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-567-70139-8 (ISBN)

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Against the background of a reconstructed inter-state ethical code, the rise of the Hasmoneans,Judea's ruling dynasty, is given a new perspective. Doron Mendels explores how concepts such as liberty, justice, fairness, loyalty, reciprocity, adherence to ancestral laws, compassion, accountability and love of fatherland became meaningful in the relations between nations in the Hellenistic Mediterranean sphere, as well as between ruling empires and their subject states. The emerging Jewish state echoed this ethical system.

Doron Mendels is Max and Sophie Mydans Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Preface and Acknowledgements
Part I: Mapping the Hellenistic Political Inter-state Ethical Code
Introduction
Chapter 1: Dialogue, War and the Public Declaration of Liberty (200-196 BCE)
Chapter 2: Two Zones of Influence – One Ethical System
Chapter 3: Hearings granted to Enemies through Dialogue
Chapter 4: The Use and Abuse of an Inter-state Ethical System – Rome’s slide into Dominance
Part II: Ethical Climate, Patterns of Behaviour and the Emerging Jewish State
Introduction
Chapter 5: The Hasmonean State as a Test Case for Patterns of Relationship between Empire and Subject State – The Book of 1 Maccabees
Chapter 6: The Subject State Corresponds and Reacts to the Hellenistic Inter-state Ethical System – The Book of 2 Maccabees
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	17.12.2021
Reihe/Serie	Jewish and Christian Texts
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	449 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-567-70139-5 / 0567701395
ISBN-13	978-0-567-70139-8 / 9780567701398
Zustand	Neuware