Studies in Jewish and Christian History, Volume 3 Part Three

Studies in Jewish and Christian History, Volume 3 Part Three
Author: Elias J. Bickerman
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004332626

The publication of this new edition of Elias Bickerman's acclaimed Studies in Jewish and Christian History along with his famous book, The God of the Maccabees, brings Bickerman's central studies on ancient Judaism and early Christianity to a new generation of students and scholars.

The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ: Volume 2

The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ: Volume 2
Author: Emil Schürer
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 625
Release: 2014-01-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1472558294

Emil Schürer's Geschichte des judischen Volkes im Zeitalter Jesu Christi, originally published in German between 1874 and 1909 and in English between 1885 and 1891, is a critical presentation of Jewish history, institutions, and literature from 175 B.C. to A.D. 135. It has rendered invaluable services to scholars for nearly a century. The present work offers a fresh translation and a revision of the entire subject-matter. The bibliographies have been rejuvenated and supplemented; the sources are presented according to the latest scholarly editions; and all the new archaeological, epigraphical, numismatic and literary evidence, including the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bar Kokhba documents, has been introduced into the survey. Account has also been taken of the progress in historical research, both in the classical and Jewish fields. This work reminds students of the profound debt owed to nineteenth-century learning, setting it within a wider framework of contemporary knowledge, and provides a foundation on which future historians of Judaism in the age of Jesus may build.

A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, Volume 3

A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, Volume 3
Author: Lester L. Grabbe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 637
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567692957

This is the third volume of the projected four-volume history of the Second Temple period, collecting all that is known about the Jews from the period of the Maccabaean revolt to Hasmonean rule and Herod the Great. Based directly on primary sources, the study addresses aspects such as Jewish literary sources, economy, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Diaspora, causes of the Maccabaen revolt, and the beginning and end of the Hasmonean kingdom and the reign of Herod the Great. Discussed in the context of the wider Hellenistic world and its history, and with an extensive up-to-date secondary bibliography, this volume is an invaluable addition to Lester Grabbe's in-depth study of the history of Judaism.

The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ: Volume 3.i

The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ: Volume 3.i
Author: Emil Schürer
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2014-01-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567604527

Emil Schürer's Geschichte des judischen Volkes im Zeitalter Jesu Christi, originally published in German between 1874 and 1909 and in English between 1885 and 1891, is a critical presentation of Jewish history, institutions, and literature from 175 B.C. to A.D. 135. It has rendered invaluable services to scholars for nearly a century. The present work offers a fresh translation and a revision of the entire subject-matter. The bibliographies have been rejuvenated and supplemented; the sources are presented according to the latest scholarly editions; and all the new archaeological, epigraphical, numismatic and literary evidence, including the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bar Kokhba documents, has been introduced into the survey. Account has also been taken of the progress in historical research, both in the classical and Jewish fields. This work reminds students of the profound debt owed to nineteenth-century learning, setting it within a wider framework of contemporary knowledge, and provides a foundation on which future historians of Judaism in the age of Jesus may build.

The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era

The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era
Author: Albert I. Baumgarten
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1997
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004107519

This volume asks why Jewish groups - Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes and the Dead Sea Scroll sect - flourished during the Maccabean era. The objective is to discover the connections between context and consequence, which will explain why sectarianism was so prominent then.

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 3 (1050-1200)

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 3 (1050-1200)
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 818
Release: 2011-03-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004216162

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 3 (CMR3) is the third part of a general history of relations between the faiths. Covering the period from 1050 to 1200, it comprises a series of introductory essays, together with the main body of more than one hundred detailed entries on all the works by Christians and Muslims about and against one another that are known from this period. These entries provide biographical details of the authors where known, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between leading scholars in the field, CMR3 is an indispensable basis for research in all elements of the history of Christian-Muslim relations.

2 Maccabees

2 Maccabees
Author: Daniel R. Schwartz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 629
Release: 2008-12-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110211203

2 Maccabees is a Jewish work composed during the 2nd century BCE and preserved by the Church. Written in Hellenistic Greek and told from a Jewish-Hellenistic perspective, 2 Maccabees narrates and interprets the ups and downs of events that took place in Jerusalem prior to and during the Maccabean revolt: institutionalized Hellenization and the foundation of Jerusalem as a polis; the persecution of Jews by Antiochus Epiphanes, accompanied by famous martyrdoms; and the rebellion against Seleucid rule by Judas Maccabaeus. 2 Maccabees is an important source both for the events it describes and for the values and interests of the Judaism of the Hellenistic diaspora that it reflects - which are often quite different from those represented by its competitor, 1 Maccabees.

Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature, Volume 3 Philo in Early Christian Literature

Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature, Volume 3 Philo in Early Christian Literature
Author: Douwe (David) Runia
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 437
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004275169

It is a remarkable fact that the writings of Philo, the Jew from Alexandria, were preserved because they were taken up in the Christian tradition. But the story of how this process of reception and appropriation took place has never been systematically research. In this book the author first examines how Philo's works are related to the New Testament and the earliest Chritian writing, and then how they were used by Greek and Latin church fathers up to 400 c.e., with special attention to the contributions of Clement, Origen, Didymus, Eusebius, Gregory of Nyssa, Ambrose, and Augustine. Philo in Early Christian Literature is a valuable guide to the state of scholarly research on a subject that has thus far been investigated in a rather piecemeal fashion.

The Significance of Yavneh and Other Essays in Jewish Hellenism

The Significance of Yavneh and Other Essays in Jewish Hellenism
Author: Shaye J. D. Cohen
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783161503757

This volume collects thirty essays by Shaye J.D. Cohen. First published between 1980 and 2006, these essays deal with a wide variety of themes and texts: Jewish Hellenism; Josephus; the Synagogue; Conversion to Judaism; Blood and Impurity; the boundary between Judaism and Christianity. What unites them is their philological orientation. Many of these essays are close studies of obscure passages in Jewish and Christian texts. The essays are united too by their common assumption that the ancient world was a single cultural continuum; that ancient Judaism, in all its expressions and varieties, was a Hellenism; and that texts written in Hebrew share a world of discourse with those written in Greek. Many of these essays are well-known and have been much discussed in contemporary scholarship. Among these are: The Significance of Yavneh (the title essay), Patriarchs and Scholarchs, Masada: Literary Tradition, Archaeological Remains, and the Credibility of Josephus, Epigraphical Rabbis, The Conversion of Antoninus, Menstruants and the Sacred in Judaism and Christianity, and A Brief History of Jewish Circumcision Blood.