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Patrick Sänger

Die ptolemäische Organisationsform politeuma

Ein Herrschaftsinstrument zugunsten jüdischer und anderer hellenischer Gemeinschaften
[Politeuma – A Ptolemaic Form of Organisation. An Instrument of Power Benefitting Jewish and Other Hellenistic Communities.]
2019. XV, 344 pages.
Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism (TSAJ) 178
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-156884-8
Published in German.
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Summary
How did the Ptolemies secure their rule when internal and external crises threatened their kingdom from the end of the third century BC onwards? To find out, Patrick Sänger examines the strategies of the politeuma – a type of association as yet only identified as having existed on Ptolemaic territory which is linked to Jewish and other communities bearing foreign ethnic designations.

Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism (TSAJ)