Between Athens and Jerusalem (1982 Collins), book

Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora (1983) is a book by John J. Collins.

Editions and translations

Published in New York, NY: Crossroad Publications, 1982. Reprinted in New York, NY: Crossroad Publications, 1983, 1986; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdman Publishing, 1999, 2000.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Part One: National and Political Identity
  • 1. The Uses of the Past
  • 2. Religion and Politics: The Ptolemaic Era
  • 3. Religion and Politics The Roman Period
• Part Two: Identity Through Ethics and Piety
  • 4. The Common Ethic
  • 5. Philosophical Judaism
  • 6. The Mysteries of God
  • 7. Jews and Gentiles
• Conclusion