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UNTIL a century ago the interval between the classical ages of Greece and Rome, which then received the designation Hellenistic, was a barren stretch despised and neglected by classical, and...


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Moses Hadas is Jay Professor of Greek at Columbia. His essay “Judaism and the Hellenistic Experience” appeared in August 1956.