Hellenistic Inter-state Political Ethics and the Emergence of the Jewish State

ISBN-13: 9780567701398 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 192 str.

Isr Professor Doron Mendels (Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Opis

Against the background of a reconstructed inter-state ethical code, the rise of the Hasmoneans,Judea's ruling dynasty, is given a new perspective. Doron Mendels explores how concepts such as liberty, justice, fairness, loyalty, reciprocity, adherence to ancestral laws, compassion, accountability and love of fatherland became meaningful in the relations between nations in the Hellenistic Mediterranean sphere, as well as between ruling empires and their subject states. The emerging Jewish state echoed this ethical system.

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgements Part I: Mapping the Hellenistic Political Inter-state Ethical Code Introduction Chapter 1: Dialogue, War and the Public Declaration of Liberty (200-196 BCE) Chapter 2: Two Zones of Influence – One Ethical System Chapter 3: Hearings granted to Enemies through Dialogue Chapter 4: The Use and Abuse of an Inter-state Ethical System – Rome’s slide into Dominance Part II: Ethical Climate, Patterns of Behaviour and the Emerging Jewish State Introduction Chapter 5: The Hasmonean State as a Test Case for Patterns of Relationship between Empire and Subject State – The Book of 1 Maccabees Chapter 6: The Subject State Corresponds and Reacts to the Hellenistic Inter-state Ethical System – The Book of 2 Maccabees Bibliography