Understanding Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism,9780881258134

Understanding Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism

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ISBN13: 9780881258134
ISBN10: 088125813X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-08-01
Publisher(s): Ktav Pub & Distributors Inc
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
xi
List of Maps and Charts
xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 3(1)
Significance of the Period
3(1)
Method
4(1)
One Judaism or Many?
4(1)
Sources
5(7)
Dominant Trends and Issues
12(2)
Summary
14(1)
The Biblical Heritage
15(24)
Historical Sketch
15(5)
The History of Civilization According to the Bible
20(1)
Revelation and Law
21(3)
Sacrifice and Priesthood
24(1)
Prophecy
25(3)
Wisdom Literature
28(1)
Summary
29(10)
Judaism in the Persian Period
39(35)
Historical and Archaeological Background
39(1)
Political Affairs
40(8)
The Second Temple
48(1)
The Samaritan Schism
49(1)
Midrash and the Foundations of Jewish Law
50(2)
The Literature of the Period
52(6)
The Canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures
58(3)
Summary
61(13)
The Hellenistic Age
74(43)
Hellenism as a Cultural Phenomenon
74(2)
Under Ptolemies and Seleucids
76(3)
The Jerusalem Temple and Priesthood
79(2)
The Gerousia
81(2)
Hellenistic Trends in Palestinian Judaism
83(2)
Hellenistic Reform and the Maccabean Revolt
85(6)
Summary
91(26)
Judaism in the Hellenistic Diaspora
117(33)
The Early History of Babylonian Jewry
117(2)
Jews in the Hellenistic World
119(3)
Political, Social, and Economic Developments
122(2)
Religious Life
124(2)
Anti-Semitism in the Hellenistic World
126(1)
The Literature of the Hellenistic Diaspora
127(5)
Summary
132(18)
Sectarianism in the Second Commonwealth
150(47)
The Hasmonean Dynasty
151(4)
Pharisees and Sadducees
155(8)
Apocalyptics and Ascetics
163(6)
Summary
169(28)
Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and the Dead Sea Scrolls
197(27)
The Apocrypha
198(5)
Pseudepigrapha
203(3)
Dead Sea Scrolls
206(7)
Summary
213(11)
The Jewish-Christian Schism
224(30)
Judea Under Roman Rule
224(3)
Herodian Rule
227(3)
Judea Under the Procurators
230(3)
The Rise of the Early Church
233(3)
Parting of the Ways
236(2)
Jewish-Christian Relations in the Early Centuries
238(1)
Summary
239(15)
Revolt
254(16)
Josephus: Historian of the Great Revolt
255(1)
The Great Revolt
256(4)
Summary
260(10)
Restoration
270(22)
Destruction and Its Aftermath
270(3)
From Temple to Synagogue
273(3)
Restoration of Autonomy: The Authority of the Rabbis
276(2)
The Bar Kokhba Revolt
278(3)
Rebuilding for the Future
281(1)
Summary
282(10)
Mishnah: The New Scripture
292(35)
From Pharisees to Rabbis
292(2)
Written and Oral Torah
294(1)
The Tannaitic Academies
294(3)
Midrash and Mishnah
297(3)
Halakhah and Aggadah
300(1)
The Redaction of the Mishnah
301(6)
Other Tannaitic Texts
307(1)
Summary
308(19)
Formative Judaism Comes of Age
327(29)
Decline of Hellenistic Judaism
327(2)
Under Byzantine Christianity
329(10)
By the Rivers of Babylon
339(5)
Summary
344(12)
The Sea of the Talmud
356(22)
Amoraic Schools
356(4)
From Amoraic Interpretation to Talmudic Texts
360(2)
The Palestinian Talmud
362(3)
The Babylonian Talmud
365(4)
The Exegetical and Homilectical Midrashim
369(1)
Liturgy
369(2)
Summary
371(7)
Epilogue: The Triumph of the Babylonian Talmud
378(5)
Glossary 383(9)
Suggestions for Further Reading and Bibliography 392(8)
Index 400

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