...but too much Martin Hengel. I have been speeding through Judaism and Hellenism: Studies in Their Encounter in Palestine During the Early Hellenistic Period and Jews, Greeks and Barbarians: Aspects of the Hellenization of Judaism in the pre-Christian Period by necessity and I do not know how much more I can take. I guess the upside is that I am no longer ignoring the Hellenising influences in Palestine pre-Maccabees.
*Gets back to reading Hengel, "The Political and Social History of Palestine from Alexander to Antiochus III (333-187 B.C.E)" in The Cambridge History of Judaism vol. 4.*
I don't know that such a thing is possible! Unless of course you mean that you're gaining so much knowledge that your head might explode. I could understand that. ;-)
ReplyDeleteHahaha, neither did I. There really is a lot of information - detailed information at that. And the lack of name diversity is really getting to me. C'mon guys, something other than Ptolemy and Antiochus!
ReplyDeleteNice blog. Good to see another person from my corner of the world who appreciates the finer things in life... like books by Bauckham.
ReplyDeleteWhat else is there to life other than books by Bauckham?!
ReplyDelete