From text to tradition : a history of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism
History
xvi, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
9780881253719, 9780881253726, 0881253715, 0881253723
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1. Introduction
Significance of the period
Method
One Judaism or many?
Sources
Dominant trends and issues
Summary
2. The biblical heritage
Historical sketch
A historiography of civilization
Revelation and law
Sacrifice and priesthood
Prophecy
Wisdom literature
Summary
3. Judaism in the Persian period
Historical and archaeological background
Political affairs
The Second Temple
The Samaritan schism
Midrash and the foundations of Jewish law
The literature of the period
The canonization of the Hebrew scriptures
Summary
4. The Hellenistic age
Hellenism as a cultural phenomenon
Under Ptolemies and Seleucids
The Jerusalem Temple and priesthood
The Gerousia
Hellenistic trends in Palestinian Judaism
Hellenistic reform and the Maccabean revolt
Summary
5. Judaism in the Hellenistic diaspora
The early history of Babylonian Jewry
Jews in the Hellenistic world
Political, social, and economic developments
Religious life
Anti-Semitism in the Hellenistic world
The literature of the Hellenistic diaspora
Summary. 6. Sectarianism in the Second Commonwealth
The Hasmonean Dynasty
Pharisees and Sadducees
Apocalyptics and ascetics
Summary
7. Apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, and the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Apocrypha
Pseudepigrapha
Dead Sea Scrolls
Summary
8. The Jewish-Christian schism
Judea under Roman rule
Herodian rule
Judea under the procurators
The rise of the early church
Parting of the ways
Jewish-Christian relations in the early centuries
Summary
9. Revolt and restoration
The great revolt
Destruction and its aftermath
From temple to synagogue
Restoration of autonomy: The authority of the rabbis
Josephus: Historian of the great revolt
The Bar Kokhba Revolt
Rebuilding for the future
Summary
10. Mishnah: The new scripture
From Pharisees to rabbis
Written and oral Torah
The Tannaitic academies
Midrash and Mishnah
Halakhah and Aggadah
The redaction of the Mishnah
Other Tannaitic texts
Summary
11. Formative Judaism comes of age
Decline of Hellenistic Judaism
Under Byzantine Christianity
By the rivers of Babylon
Summary. 12. The sea of the Talmud
Amoraic schools
From Amoraic interpretation to Talmudic texts
The Palestinian Talmud
The Babylonian Talmud
The exegetical Midrashim
Jewish liturgy
Summary
13. The life of Torah
The world of the Aggadah
The daily life of the Jew
Sanctuaries in time
The sanctified table
Marriage and the family
Ritual purity and impurity
Life-cycle
Study in the service of God
The mystic way
Summary
14. Epilogue: The hegemony of the Babylonian Talmud