The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic AgeThis 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 |
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