{"id":45066,"date":"2026-03-29T12:48:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/?post_type=product&#038;p=45066"},"modified":"2026-04-19T00:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:55:40","slug":"rabbinic-literature-and-greco-roman-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/product\/rabbinic-literature-and-greco-roman-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbinic Literature and Greco-Roman Philosophy. Epicurea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free Shipping, HC, Unmarked and Tight Binding. Brill 1973<br \/>\nRabbinic Literature and Greco-Roman Philosophy: A Study of Epicurea and Phetorica in Early Midrashic Writings<br \/>\n(Studia Post Biblica &#8211; Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism)<br \/>\nby Henry A. Fischel<br \/>\nHenry A. Fischel (1913 \u2013 2008) was an American-German professor emeritus of Near Eastern languages and cultures at Indiana University. Fischel was an influential figure in founding the Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University.<!--more--> Under his direction, the Lilly Endowment gave the university a grant in 1972\u201373 to develop a Jewish Studies Program<br \/>\nHe was born in Bonn in 1913. Heinz Albert Fischel was born to parents Anna and Adolf. His father was a shoemaker. As a child in Bonn, he enjoyed playing chess, soccer, tennis, and also competitive boxing. He also was a talented pianist. He completed a degree in rabbinical studies at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin, and was enrolled as a student at the University of Berlin at the same time. After the Krystallnacht Pogrom, the Nazis imprisoned him at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.[1] He received his degree in rabbinical studies from the Hochschule in 1939. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1945. He took a position at Brandeis University in 1958, and then accepted a position to join the faculty at Indiana University in 1961<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free Shipping, HC, Unmarked and Tight Binding. Brill 1973<br \/>\nRabbinic Literature and Greco-Roman Philosophy: A Study of Epicurea and Phetorica in Early Midrashic Writings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":45076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1882,2022,1135,1597,1178],"product_tag":[2628,5312,1708,1735,1430,2458],"class_list":{"0":"post-45066","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-academia","7":"product_cat-biblical-studies","8":"product_cat-jewish-history","9":"product_cat-jewish-philosophy","10":"product_cat-midrash","11":"product_tag-academia","12":"product_tag-brill","13":"product_tag-greek","14":"product_tag-latin","15":"product_tag-midrash","16":"product_tag-philosophy","18":"first","19":"instock","20":"virtual","21":"purchasable","22":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/45066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=45066"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=45066"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=45066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}