Hellenist
| Person interested in and influenced by Greek culture. |
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| In the struggles around Hellenization, Onias IV founded an Egyptian Temple of Yahweh (Josephus, ANTIQUITIES 13. In response to this economic, social, and cultural oppression on the part of this Greek/Macedonian "military-political complex," while many Israelites (primarily the landed elites) collaborated with the Hellenization juggernaut, others (led by the Maccabees) protested and resisted. ``Had the process of Hellenization continued gradually and peacefully,'' writes author Rabbi Irving Greenberg, ``it might well have taken over the Jewish people. |
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