Dedication

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

Contents

pp xi-xii

Translators' Note

pp xiii-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-18

PART I - THE FIRST MIRROR

pp 19-20

1 - Waking the Dead-Greece as an Ideal and an Exemplar

pp 21-39

2 - Hellenism and Hebraism: The Two Poles of the World

pp 40-57

3 - Israel and Greece: Reviving a Legendary Past

pp 58-78

4 - ‘Greek Wisdom’ as Secular Knowledge and Science

pp 79-118

5 - Japheth in the Tents of Shem: The Reception of the Classical Heritage in Modern Hebrew Culture

pp 119-154

6 - The Moral Dimension: Commonality and Particularity

pp 155-187

7 - Worlds without Compromise: Reconstructing the Disparities

pp 188-219

8 - Have Jews Imagination? Jews and the Creative Arts

pp 220-278

PART II - THE SECOND MIRROR

pp 279-280

9 - The Nature of the Hellenistic Mirror

pp 281-305

10 - Judaism and Hellenism in Palestine and Alexandria: Two Models of a National and Cultural Encounter

pp 306-336

11 - Homeric Books and Hellenistic Culture in the World of the Sages

pp 337-352

PART III - ATHENS IN JERUSALEM

pp 353-354

12 - Back to History: The Secularization of the Ancient Jewish Past

pp 355-380

13 - The Children of Japheth (Aryans) and the Children of Shem (Sernites): Race and Innate Nationalism

pp 381-402

14 - The People and its Land: Country, Landscape, and Culture

pp 403-431

15 - A ‘Polis' in Jerusalem: The Jewish State

pp 432-448

16 - The New Jewish Culture: Ideal and Reality

pp 449-472

Conclusion: What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

pp 473-480

Bibliography

pp 481-546

Index

pp 547-560