Format:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 150 p)
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19 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0567051617
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0567552489
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9780567051615
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9780567552488
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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1. Introduction: historical overview and sources2. Textual Judaism: the priestly and scribal current -- 3. Revolutionary Judaism: the political and 'messianic' current -- 4. Eschatological Judaism: the apocalyptic current -- 5. Inverted Judaism: the gnostic current -- 6. Summary and conclusions.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780567051615
Additional Edition:
Print version Introduction to Second Temple Judaism : History and Religion of the Jews in the Time of Nehemiah, the Maccabees, Hillel, and Jesus
Language:
English
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