TY  - BOOK
AU  - Himmelfarb,Martha
TI  - A Kingdom of Priests: Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism
T2  - Jewish Culture and Contexts Series
SN  - 9780812202274
AV  - BM651 -- .H56 2006eb 
U1  - 296.4/95 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Dead Sea scrolls
KW  - Priests, Jewish-History
KW  - Holiness-Judaism
KW  - Judaism-History-Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
KW  - Apocryphal books-Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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