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HELLENIZATION AMONG THE RABBIS: SOME EVIDENCE FROM EARLY AGGADOT CONCERNING DAVID AND SOLOMON BY SANDRA R. SHIMOFF University of Maryland Baltimore County I When two cultures attempt to occupy the same ecological niche and to permeate the lives of the same populations, one of those cultures will be weaker, to the extent that it can marshal less military and political power. There are three possible responses available to the weaker cultural system. First, the weaker culture can totally reject the foreign influence, call on its resources, insulate itself, and successfully reject the invading system. Second, the weaker culture may choose the strategy of total and unconditional surrender, adopting the new culture in toto, and thoroughly assimilating its values. Third, the weaker culture can take the middle road, adopting some features of the new culture, while attempting to maintain its own identity. Cultures successfully adopting the first of these strategies will, of course, thrive and sur- vive, but the tactic could not have been effective in the face of such overwhelming strength-both military and social-as the hellenistic cultural imperialism evident in Palestine in the first few centuries of the Common Era. And any culture which adopted the "unconditional surrender"
Journal for the Study of Judaism – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1987
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