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

Doron Mendels is Max and Sophie Mydans Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

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
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