Better than the Greeks
Martin Goodman, 30 January 1992
The Cambridge History of Judaism. Vol. II: The Hellenistic Age
edited by W.D. Davies and Louis Finkelstein.
Cambridge, 738 pp., £65, March 1990,0 521 21929 9 Show More
edited by W.D. Davies and Louis Finkelstein.
Cambridge, 738 pp., £65, March 1990,
“... As The Cambridge History of Judaism crawls ponderously towards the end of its huge task of charting the history of Judaism from 539 BC to circa AD 250, it continues to raise many questions. On a practical level the reader is left wondering about the wisdom of embarking on ambitious projects of this kind, in which the open-mindedness of the editors, commendable in other contexts, leaves unresolved such dramatic divergences between the different chapters that even the most intelligent neophyte will be left flummoxed ... ”
