Author: Lawrence H. Schiffman
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780881258134
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Describes the Second Temple period (the first few centuries before and after the common era) and its influence on the development of Rabbinic Judaism, which is the foundation for all of modern Judaism.
Author: Lawrence H. Schiffman
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780881254556
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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"An indispensible companion text, Texts and Traditions includes the essential documents of the various religious trends of the Second Temple and Rabbinic periods as well as Josephus, Greek and Aramaic inscriptions, classical historians and talmudic sources." --Book Jacket.
Author: Lawrence H. Schiffman
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780881253726
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Author: Larry R. Helyer
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 9780830826780
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Larry R. Helyer provides an introduction and historical context for the wealth of Jewish literature outside the Hebrew Bible, and he explores the pressures, realities, questions and dreams that nurtured and provoked these written works.
Author: Boccaccini
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802843616
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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In a bold challenge to the long-held scholarly notion that Rabbinic Judaism already was an established presence during the Second Temple period, Boccaccini argues that Rabbinic Judaism was a daring reform movement that developed following the destruction of the Jerusalem temple and took shape in the first centuries of the common era.
Author: Malka Z. Simkovich
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 0827612656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Exploring the world of the Second Temple period (539 BCE–70 CE), in particular the vastly diverse stories, commentaries, and other documents written by Jews during the last three centuries of this period, Malka Z. Simkovich takes us to Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch, to the Jewish sectarians and the Roman-Jewish historian Josephus, to the Cairo genizah, and to the ancient caves that kept the secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls. As she recounts Jewish history during this vibrant, formative era, Simkovich analyzes some of the period’s most important works for both familiar and possible meanings. This volume interweaves past and present in four parts. Part 1 tells modern stories of discovery of Second Temple literature. Part 2 describes the Jewish communities that flourished both in the land of Israel and in the Diaspora. Part 3 explores the lives, worldviews, and significant writings of Second Temple authors. Part 4 examines how authors of the time introduced novel, rewritten, and expanded versions of Bible stories in hopes of imparting messages to the people. Simkovich’s popular style will engage readers in understanding the sometimes surprisingly creative ways Jews at this time chose to practice their religion and interpret its scriptures in light of a cultural setting so unlike that of their Israelite forefathers. Like many modern Jews today, they made an ancient religion meaningful in an ever-changing world.
Author: Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781930675339
Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Lester L. Grabbe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567296660
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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An internationally respected expert on the Second Temple period provides a fully up-to-date introduction to this crucial area of Biblical Studies. This introduction, by a world leader in the field, provides the perfect guide to the Second Temple Period, its history, literature, and religious setting. Lester Grabbe magisterially guides the reader through the period providing a careful overview of the most studied sources, the history surrounding them and the various currents within Judaism at the time. This book will be a core text for courses on the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, as well as Qumran, Intertestamental Literature and Early Judaism.
Author: Daniel C. Harlow
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802866255
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 543
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Based on a conference held Apr. 4-5, 2008 at Amherst College.
Author: Alexei Sivertsev
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047407768
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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This book suggests a new approach to the social history of Jewish religious movements in the Second Temple and early Rabbinic periods. It argues that most of these movements and their traditions emerged within the context of complex interaction between traditional families and disciple circles.
