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The Power of the Word: 6th Century B.C. to 2nd Century B.C.
(Heritage: Civilization and the Jews series
VHS
60 minutes
DS117 .H471 1984 no.2
Chronicles the emergence of a Jewish identity based on ideas, not territory; the intellectual interaction between the Jewish world and classical Greece and Rome. It witnesses the spread of Jewish ideas to the hellenistic world of the Eastern Mediterranean, and discusses the complex political tensions that led to the destruction of Judea by Rome in the first century of the common era.
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