The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic AgeW. D. Davies, Louis Finkelstein, William Horbury, John Sturdy, Steven T. Katz, Mitchell B. Hart, Tony Michels This is the second of four volumes covering the history of Judaism from the Persian period, roughly 539-322 BCE, to the Tannaitic period, which culminated in the codification of the Mishnah around 250 CE. The volume describes both the rejection and adoption of Hellenism by Judaism. |
Contents
The political and social history of Palestine from | 35 |
Hebrew Aramaic and Greek in the Hellenistic age | 79 |
The Diaspora in the Hellenistic age | 115 |
S The interpenetration of Judaism and Hellenism in | 167 |
The men of the Great Synagogue circa 400170 B C E | 229 |
The Pharisaic leadership after the Great Synagogue | 245 |
Antiochus IV | 278 |
The Hasmonean revolt and the Hasmonean dynasty | 292 |
The apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the Hellenistic | 409 |
The book of Daniel | 504 |
The matrix of apocalyptic | 524 |
The Septuagint and its Hebrew text | 534 |
The Targumim | 563 |
The Samaritans | 591 |
The growth of antiJudaism or the Greek attitude | 614 |
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Jewish literature in Hebrew and Aramaic in the Greek | 352 |
JewishGreek literature of the Greek period | 385 |
Chronological table | 717 |
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The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age William David Davies No preview available - 1984 |
The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age William David Davies No preview available - 1984 |
The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age William David Davies No preview available - 1984 |
Common terms and phrases
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