عنوان

Vom Volk zur Stadt? Ethnos und Polis im hellenistischen Orient

شماره

LA118926

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Vom Volk zur Stadt? Ethnos und Polis im hellenistischen Orient

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Benedikt Eckhardt

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

It is often stated in handbooks that in 175 b.c.e., Judaea (or Jerusalem) was transformed from an ethnos to a polis. This statement is based on received opinions about Hellenistic (and especially Seleucid) administrative categories that can no longer be maintained. A re-examination of the relevant literary and epigraphic evidence shows that ethnos was not used as an antonym to polis in Hellenistic sources. The article then tries to explain the emergence of a scholarly paradigm that took ethnos to be precisely that: the designation for oriental, non-urbanized communities that were inferior in important regards to the Greek polis. The main influence is argued to have been Aristotle's peculiar use of the two terms. The scholarly concept of an ethnos/polis-divide can be traced back to nineteenth-century scholarship and its "orientalist" conceptions. This is important for appreciating recent discussions of the nature of Jewish identity in antiquity ("people" or "religion"), and for an increased awareness in Jewish studies of the discourses that have shaped common knowledge about the Hellenistic Orient in general and Judaism in particular. It is often stated in handbooks that in 175 b.c.e., Judaea (or Jerusalem) was transformed from an ethnos to a polis. This statement is based on received opinions about Hellenistic (and especially Seleucid) administrative categories that can no longer be maintained. A re-examination of the relevant literary and epigraphic evidence shows that ethnos was not used as an antonym to polis in Hellenistic sources. The article then tries to explain the emergence of a scholarly paradigm that took ethnos to be precisely that: the designation for oriental, non-urbanized communities that were inferior in important regards to the Greek polis. The main influence is argued to have been Aristotle's peculiar use of the two terms. The scholarly concept of an ethnos/polis-divide can be traced back to nineteenth-century scholarship and its "orientalist" conceptions. This is important for appreciating recent discussions of the nature of Jewish identity in antiquity ("people" or "religion"), and for an increased awareness in Jewish studies of the discourses that have shaped common knowledge about the Hellenistic Orient in general and Judaism in particular.

تاريخ نشر

2014

توصيف ظاهري

199-228

عنوان

Journal for the Study of Judaism

شماره جلد

45/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0631

اصطلاح موضوعی

ethnos

اصطلاح موضوعی

Hellenizing reform

اصطلاح موضوعی

history of scholarship

اصطلاح موضوعی

Jerusalem

اصطلاح موضوعی

polis

اصطلاح موضوعی

Seleucid period

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Benedikt Eckhardt

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15700631-00000393

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y