Malka Simkovich: The Secrets of Second Temple Judaism
18Forty Podcast
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Is There a Shift in the Jewish Experience?
David Perry: I think about this age as really beginning with the world of Hellenism. Even in China and other civilizations, there are revelations that look very similar to what you find developing in the Hellenistic world. We often think of the Jewish experience inside these host cultures as being profoundly influenced by the host's culture. But scholars believe that while Jews were impacted by Hellenist ideas,. Greeks and what we would call pagans, were also perhaps influenced by ideasdeveloping in Jewish circles.
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