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1 online resource (527 pages) |
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Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Abbreviations; Chronology; Maps; Illustrations; Early Judaism in Modern Scholarship; The Recovery of the Pseudepigrapha; The Relevance of Rabbinic Writings; The Place of the Pseudepigrapha; The Place of Apocalypticism; The Dead Sea Scrolls; Judaism and Hellenism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Jewish History from Alexander to Hadrian; From Alexander to Pompey; Before Alexander; Alexander and the Diadochoi; The Third Century; Antiochus III; Antiochus IV; The Maccabean Revolt; The Oniads in Egypt; The Hasmonean Dynasty; From Pompey to Hadrian |
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The End of Hasmonean Rule and the Rise of the AntipatridsHerod, King of Judea and Client of Rome; Herod's Sons and Successors; Judea under Roman Rule (6-41 C.E.); Herod Agrippa I; The Road to Revolution (44-66 C.E.); The First Jewish Revolt; The Jewish Diaspora from Pompey to 70 C.E.; Judea between the Revolts; The Diaspora between the Revolts; The Bar Kokhba Revolt; Bibliography; Judaism in the Land of Israel; The Land of Israel; The Temple; Festivals; Institutions; Groups; Literature; History; Stories; Legal Texts; Wisdom Literature; Scriptural Interpretation; Apocalypses |
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Poetic and Liturgical WorksCommonalities; Monotheism; Covenant; Bibliography; Judaism in the Diaspora; The Extent of the Jewish Diaspora; The Jewish Conception of Diaspora; Synagogues in the Diaspora; The Jews' Participation in Social and Political Life; The Jews' Participation in Cultural and Intellectual Life; Maintaining Jewish Identity; Gentile Attraction to Judaism; Relations with the Homeland; Bibliography; The Jewish Scriptures: Texts, Versions, Canons; The Composition of the Scriptural Texts; The Texts in the Early Second Temple Period; Recognition of the Literature as Scripture |
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Early Translations: Aramaic and GreekThe Value of the Early Versions; Surprising Texts from the Late Second Temple Period; Exodus; Numbers; Joshua; Judges; Samuel; Isaiah; Jeremiah; Psalms; The (Reworked?) Pentateuch; Similar Examples from the MT, SP, and OG; Lessons from the Biblical Scrolls; Orthography; Individual Textual Variants; Isolated Insertions; New and Expanded Editions of Biblical Books; The Nature of the Biblical Text; From Collection of Scriptures to the Canon of Scripture; Terminological Distinctions; The Evidence from Qumran for the Process toward Canon |
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Shifts in the Process toward CanonBibliography; Early Jewish Biblical Interpretation; The Rise of the Bible; The Mode of Restoration; The Laws of the Pentateuch; The Rise of Biblical Interpreters; Interpretation inside the Bible; Interpretations outside the Bible; The Four Assumptions; How Interpretation Worked; Words and Verses; The Wisdom Connection; Bibliography; Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha; Apocrypha; Apocrypha during and since the Reformation and Counter-Reformation; Apocrypha in Orthodox Traditions; Apocrypha in Greek Codices of the Bible; "Apocrypha" in Antiquity |
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Recent Use of "Apocrypha" as a Title for Ancient Documents |
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Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
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Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D.
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Jews
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Judaism -- Post-exilic period (Judaism)
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Harlow, Daniel C
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| ISBN |
9781467437394 |
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1467437395 |
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