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From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, Third Edition.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Louisville, KY : Westminster John Knox Press, 1987Copyright date: ©1987Edition: 3rd edDescription: 1 online resource (318 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611645484
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, Third EditionDDC classification:
  • 296.09/014
LOC classification:
  • M176 -- .C615 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword to the First Edition -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- 1 Ancient Judaism -- CHRONOLOGY -- PERIODIZATION AND PERSPECTIVE -- FROM PREEXILIC ISRAEL TO SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM -- UNITY AND DIVERSITY -- Timeline -- 2 Jews and Gentiles -- POLITICAL: GENTILE DOMINATION -- CULTURAL: JUDAISM AND HELLENISM -- SOCIAL: JEWS AND GENTILES -- CONCLUSION -- 3 The Jewish "Religion" -- PRACTICES -- BELIEFS -- CONCLUSION -- 4 The Community and Its Institutions -- PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL -- THE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF THE DIASPORA -- THE SYNAGOGUE -- PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- 5 Sectarian and Normative -- SECT AND HERESY -- THE FOCAL POINTS OF JEWISH SECTARIANISM -- "ORTHODOX" AND "NORMATIVE" -- PROTOSECTARIANISM IN THE PERSIAN PERIOD -- PHARISEES, SADDUCEES, AND ESSENES -- SUMMARY: FROM THE PERSIAN PERIODTO PHARISEES, SADDUCEES, AND ESSENES -- OTHER SECTS AND GROUPS -- CONCLUSION -- 6 Canonization and Its Implications -- CANON AND CANONICAL -- THE HISTORY OF THE BIBLICAL CANON -- THE IMPLICATIONS OF CANONIZATION -- CONCLUSION -- 7 The Emergence of Rabbinic Judaism -- THE RABBIS AND THE RABBINIC PERIOD -- WHAT IS THE MISHNAH? -- FROM SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM TO RABBINIC JUDAISM -- CONCLUSION -- 8 Ways That Parted -- ROMAN EVIDENCE -- CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE -- JEWISH EVIDENCE -- CONCLUSIONS -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Glossary of Technical Terms -- Index -- Back cover.
Summary: This is the third edition of Shaye J. D. Cohen's important and seminal work on the history and development of Judaism between 164 BCE to 300 CE. Cohen's synthesis of religion, literature, and history offers deep insight into the nature of Judaism at this key period, including the relationship.
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Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword to the First Edition -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- 1 Ancient Judaism -- CHRONOLOGY -- PERIODIZATION AND PERSPECTIVE -- FROM PREEXILIC ISRAEL TO SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM -- UNITY AND DIVERSITY -- Timeline -- 2 Jews and Gentiles -- POLITICAL: GENTILE DOMINATION -- CULTURAL: JUDAISM AND HELLENISM -- SOCIAL: JEWS AND GENTILES -- CONCLUSION -- 3 The Jewish "Religion" -- PRACTICES -- BELIEFS -- CONCLUSION -- 4 The Community and Its Institutions -- PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL -- THE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF THE DIASPORA -- THE SYNAGOGUE -- PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- 5 Sectarian and Normative -- SECT AND HERESY -- THE FOCAL POINTS OF JEWISH SECTARIANISM -- "ORTHODOX" AND "NORMATIVE" -- PROTOSECTARIANISM IN THE PERSIAN PERIOD -- PHARISEES, SADDUCEES, AND ESSENES -- SUMMARY: FROM THE PERSIAN PERIODTO PHARISEES, SADDUCEES, AND ESSENES -- OTHER SECTS AND GROUPS -- CONCLUSION -- 6 Canonization and Its Implications -- CANON AND CANONICAL -- THE HISTORY OF THE BIBLICAL CANON -- THE IMPLICATIONS OF CANONIZATION -- CONCLUSION -- 7 The Emergence of Rabbinic Judaism -- THE RABBIS AND THE RABBINIC PERIOD -- WHAT IS THE MISHNAH? -- FROM SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM TO RABBINIC JUDAISM -- CONCLUSION -- 8 Ways That Parted -- ROMAN EVIDENCE -- CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE -- JEWISH EVIDENCE -- CONCLUSIONS -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Glossary of Technical Terms -- Index -- Back cover.

This is the third edition of Shaye J. D. Cohen's important and seminal work on the history and development of Judaism between 164 BCE to 300 CE. Cohen's synthesis of religion, literature, and history offers deep insight into the nature of Judaism at this key period, including the relationship.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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