Himmelfarb, Martha. <br/><br/>
A Kingdom of Priests :  Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (279 pages) 
 - Jewish Culture and Contexts Series .
 - Jewish Culture and Contexts Series .
<br/><br/>Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Priest and Scribe: Ancestry and Professional Skill in the Book of the Watchers, the Wisdom of Ben Sira, and Aramaic Levi -- 2 Jubilees' Kingdom of Priests -- 3 Priesthood and Purity Laws: The Temple Scroll and the Damascus Document -- 4 Priesthood and Sectarianism: The Rule of the Community, the Damascus Document, and the Book of Revelation -- 5 Priesthood and Allegory: Philo and Alexandrian Judaism -- 6 'The Children of Abraham Your Friend": The End of Priesthood, the Rise of Christianity, and the Neutralization of Jewish Sectarianism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. 
<br/><br/> Considers a range of texts--including the Book of Watchers, Book of Jubilees, legal documents from the Dead Sea scrolls, writings of Philo of Alexandria, and the Book of Revelation--to explore the tensions inherent in Second Temple Judaism's emphasis on ancestry as the primary criterion for inclusion among the chosen people of Israel. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780812202274 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Dead Sea scrolls.<br/>Priests, Jewish-History.<br/>Holiness-Judaism.<br/>Judaism-History-Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.<br/>Apocryphal books-Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BM651 -- .H56 2006eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>296.4/95