From Ezra to the Last of the Maccabees

From Ezra to the Last of the Maccabees
Author: Elias Bickerman
Publisher: Franklin Classics
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2018-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780343212209

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Chronicles-Maccabees

Chronicles-Maccabees
Author:
Publisher: Scepter Publishers
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2003
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781889334844

This volume of the Navarre Bible commentaries unlocks the mysteries of a wide-ranging sequence of Old Testament books: the historical books of Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Maccabees and the little-known but pivotally important books of Tobit, Judith, and Esther. In these books you'll find the rich and instructive stories of Kings David and Solomon, the Babylonian exile, and its aftermath; the heroism of the Maccabees who gave their lives to preserve their faith in God; and the deep faith and awareness of divine blessing that invests the books of Tobit, Judith, and Esther.

Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity

Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity
Author: Eduard Iricinschi
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783161491221

"The papers collected in this volume shift the focus away from "heretics" and "heresy" to heresiological discourse, by contextualizing the late antique Jewish and Christian groups that produced our extant literature. The contributors to the volume draw from multiple literary corpora and genres, bringing a variety of late antique perspective to explore the discursive construction of the Other. They unravel ethnic identities, and re-create the multiple voices textured in the dialogue between the "orthodox" and "heretical" writers."--BOOK JACKET.

Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
Author: John J. Collins
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 1076
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1451484364

John J. Collins’ Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most reliable and widely adopted critical textbooks at undergraduate and graduate levels alike, and for good reason. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed explicitly at motivated students regardless of their previous exposure to the Bible or faith commitments. Collins proceeds through the canon of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, judiciously presenting the current state of historical, archaeological, and literary understanding of the biblical text, and engaging the student in questions of significance and interpretation for the contemporary world. The second edition has been revised where more recent scholarship indicates it, and is now presented in a refreshing new format.

Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity

Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity
Author: Lee I. Levine
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780295976822

This book examines the influence of Greco-Roman culture on Jewish society from the aftermath of Alexander’s conquest to the Byzantine era. It offers a balanced view of the literary, epigraphical, and archeological evidence attesting to the process of Hellenization in Jewish life and its impact on several aspects of Judaism as we know it today.

From the Maccabees to the Mishnah

From the Maccabees to the Mishnah
Author: Shaye J. D. Cohen
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664250171

This book explores the period from the 160s to 63 B.C.E., when the Maccabees ruled the Jews, up to the publication of the Mishnah in the second century C.E.

Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jews

Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jews
Author: Albert I. Baumgarten
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9783161501715

"Albert Baumgarten presents the biography of one of the most distinguished historians of the Jews in antiquity that demonstrates the important connections between his scholarship, life and times. The events of the twentieth century provide the context for the analysis of Bickerman's scholarly production." --Back cover.