Understanding Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism

Understanding Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism
Author: Lawrence H. Schiffman
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780881258134

Describes the Second Temple period (the first few centuries before and after the common era) and its influence on the development of Rabbinic Judaism, which is the foundation for all of modern Judaism.

From Text to Tradition

From Text to Tradition
Author: Lawrence H. Schiffman
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1991
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780881253726

Texts and Traditions

Texts and Traditions
Author: Lawrence H. Schiffman
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Total Pages: 812
Release: 1998
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780881254556

"An indispensible companion text, Texts and Traditions includes the essential documents of the various religious trends of the Second Temple and Rabbinic periods as well as Josephus, Greek and Aramaic inscriptions, classical historians and talmudic sources." --Book Jacket.

Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period

Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period
Author: Larry R. Helyer
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2002-07-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830826780

Larry R. Helyer provides an introduction and historical context for the wealth of Jewish literature outside the Hebrew Bible, and he explores the pressures, realities, questions and dreams that nurtured and provoked these written works.

An Introduction to Second Temple Judaism

An Introduction to Second Temple Judaism
Author: Lester L. Grabbe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2010-06-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567455017

An internationally respected expert on the Second Temple period provides a fully up-to-date introduction to this crucial area of Biblical Studies. This introduction, by a world leader in the field, provides the perfect guide to the Second Temple Period, its history, literature, and religious setting. Lester Grabbe magisterially guides the reader through the period providing a careful overview of the most studied sources, the history surrounding them and the various currents within Judaism at the time. This book will be a core text for courses on the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, as well as Qumran, Intertestamental Literature and Early Judaism.

Oxford Bibliographies

Oxford Bibliographies
Author: Ilan Stavans
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release:
Genre: Hispanic Americans
ISBN: 9780199913701

"An emerging field of study that explores the Hispanic minority in the United States, Latino Studies is enriched by an interdisciplinary perspective. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, demographers, linguists, as well as religion, ethnicity, and culture scholars, among others, bring a varied, multifaceted approach to the understanding of a people whose roots are all over the Americas and whose permanent home is north of the Rio Grande. Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies offers an authoritative, trustworthy, and up-to-date intellectual map to this ever-changing discipline."--Editorial page.

Roots of Rabbinic Judaism

Roots of Rabbinic Judaism
Author: Boccaccini
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802843616

In a bold challenge to the long-held scholarly notion that Rabbinic Judaism already was an established presence during the Second Temple period, Boccaccini argues that Rabbinic Judaism was a daring reform movement that developed following the destruction of the Jerusalem temple and took shape in the first centuries of the common era.