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Judaic religion in the Second Temple period : belief and practice from the Exile to Yavneh /
This text focuses on a holistic interpretation of the Second Temple period (c.550 BC - 100 AD) and its importance for the nature of Jewish religion in later centuries. Topics examined include views on God, the temple and priesthood and messianism.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Religion 3
- Judaic 5
- Second Temple period 5
- Apologia pro historia mea 6
- Some technical matters 9
- Part I Chronological survey 11
- 2 Persian period (539-333 BCE) 13
- Major sources 13
- Books of Ezra and Nehemiah 13
- Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi 15
- Joel 17
- Jonah 17
- Isaiah 56-66 18
- Books of Chronicles 19
- Proverbs 21
- Job 22
- Esther 23
- Ruth 25
- Song of Songs 25
- P Document 26
- Archaeology, papyri, and coins 28
- Synthesis 29
- 3 Early Greek period (333-200 BCE) 37
- Hecateus of Abdera 37
- Zenon papyri 39
- Story of the Tobiads 40
- Ethiopic Enoch (1 Enoch) and the Book of Giants 41
- Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) 42
- Tobit 44
- Edicts of Antiochus III 46
- Demetrius the Chronographer 48
- Septuagint translation of the Bible 49
- Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) 50
- Synthesis 52
- 4 Later Greek period and Hasmoneans (200-63 BCE) 59
- Major sources 59
- 1 and 2 Maccabees 59
- Daniel 60
- 1 Enoch 83-105 62
- Book of Jubilees 63
- Sibylline Oracles 3-5 64
- Judith 65
- 1 Baruch 66
- Qumran scrolls 67
- Fragmentary Jewish Writers in Greek 70
- Pseudo-Hecateus 73
- Testament of Moses (Assumption of Moses) 74
- Letter of (Pseudo- ) Aristeas 75
- Synthesis 76
- 5 Under Roman rule (63 BCE-70 CE) 84
- Major sources 84
- Psalms of Solomon 84
- 3 Maccabees 86
- Wisdom of Solomon 86
- Pseudo-Phocylides 88
- Philo of Alexandria 89
- Josephus 92
- Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum (Pseudo-Philo) 94
- Adam and Eve literature 95
- Similitudes (Parables) of Enoch (1 Enoch 37-71) 97
- Sibylline Oracles 97
- Slavonic Enoch (2 Enoch) 98
- 4 Maccabees 99
- Testament of Moses 100
- Testament of Abraham 100
- Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs 101
- Testament of Job 104
- Joseph and Asenath 105
- Judean Desert manuscripts, inscriptions, and archaeology 106
- 6 Transition to rabbinic Judaism: Yavneh 116
- Major sources 116
- Rabbinic literature 116
- Apocalypses of Ezra, Baruch, Abraham, and John 117
- Sibylline Oracles 120
- Reconstruction at Yavneh 120
- 7 Temple and priesthood 129
- Theological basis of the cult 129
- Temple and cult 132
- Physical temple 134
- Cultic personnel 135
- Financial support for the temple 137
- Cultic rituals 138
- Women and the cult 140
- Cultic year: sabbath and annual festivals 141
- Music and singing 143
- High priest and "the Sanhedrin" 144
- 8 Scripture, prayer, and synagogue 150
- Scribes and literacy 150
- Scripture and canon 152
- Main texts 153
- Conclusions about canonization 156
- Development of the text 158
- Summary about textual developments 164
- Scriptural interpretation 165
- Conclusions about scriptural interpretation 169
- Prayer and the rise of the synagogue 170
- "Popular religion" 175
- 9 Sects and movements 183
- Beginnings of sectarianism 183
- Sadducees and Pharisees 185
- Josephus 187
- New Testament 192
- Rabbinic literature 194
- 4QMMT and the Temple Scroll (11QT) 196
- Essenes 199
- Question of Qumran 201
- Some tentative conclusions 205
- Other sects and groups 206
- Synthesis 206
- 10 Concepts of the Deity and the spirit world 210
- Developing views about God 210
- Ancient Israel 212
- Innovations during the Second Temple period 215
- Question of monotheism 216
- Spirit world 219
- Main texts 220
- Summary on angelic beings 224
- Figure of Wisdom and the Logos 225
- Main texts 225
- Summary of the figure of Wisdom 227
- Logos tradition 228
- 11 Prophecy, apocalypticism, the esoteric arts, and predicting the future 232
- Problems of definition 232
- Did prophecy cease in the Second Temple period? 236
- Main texts 237
- Esoteric arts and their use 241
- Astrology 241
- Dreams 243
- Textualg interpretation 245
- Chronography 246
- Magic, mysticism, and controlling the spirits 248
- Prophetic and charismatic individuals 251
- Synthesis 254
- 12 Eschatologies and ideas of salvation 257
- Main texts 257
- Personal eschatology: ideas about life after death 267
- Heavens and hells 268
- Cosmic eschatology: expectations about the end of the world 269
- 13 Messiahs 271
- Main texts 271
- Hebrew Bible 271
- Ben Sira 273
- Qumran scrolls 273
- Psalms of Solomon 276
- Similitudes of Enoch (1 Enoch 37-71) 276
- Philo 276
- Josephus 278
- 4 Ezra/2 Baruch 279
- Sibylline Oracles 280
- New Testament 280
- Rabbinic literature 281
- "Son of Man" 282
- Sicarii, Zealots, and other "revolutionary" groups 283
- "Fourth Philosophy" and the Sicarii 285
- Zealots 287
- Synthesis 288
- 14 Jews and Judaism in the Hellenistic world 292
- How they saw themselves 292
- Jewish identity and conversion 292
- Ideology of the land and the concept of exile 297
- Gender and sexuality 300
- How others saw them 305
- Philo-Judaism and anti-Judaism 305
- Religious tolerance 308
- Synthesis 310
- 15 Judaism in the Second Temple period: a holistic perspective 315.