Remember Amalek!: Vengeance, Zealotry, and Group Destruction in the Bible According to Philo, Pseudo-Philo, and Josephus
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The divine command to exterminate Amalek--men, women, children, and even animals who have no free will--is what in contemporary terms has been called genocide. Louis Feldman explores how the earliest systematic commentators on the Bible--the Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo in his many essays on biblical themes; the mysterious, still unclassified Pseudo-Philo in his Biblical Antiquities; the premier Jewish historian and polymath Josephus in his...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0878204636
ISBN13:9780878204632
Release Date:October 2004
Publisher:Hebrew Union College Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.92 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 8.9" x 6.0"
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