A History of Judaism - Martin Goodman
10 A History of Judaism campaigns under the command of Joshua against the Canaanites, some of whom were terrifying giants ‘in no ...
deserts, tribes and empires 11 Simeon, Levi, Benjamin, Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, Zebulun, Naph- tali, Dan and Asher, and Reub ...
12 A History of Judaism the history of the following generations of the Hebrew kings is punc- tuated in Josephus’ account by the ...
deserts, tribes and empires 13 bury the kings of Media, Persia and Parthia even now, and the person to whose care it is entruste ...
14 A History of Judaism mortal danger. From this they were rescued only by the heroic interven- tion of the king’s beautiful Jew ...
deserts, tribes and empires 15 the Jews to continue undisturbed their ancestral worship in Jerusalem, with a proclamation publis ...
16 A History of Judaism Josephus went on to note in the same lament that, as a result of this miscalculation by the Hasmonaeans, ...
deserts, tribes and empires 17 was, of course, a great deal that he simply could not know. Organizing the material of the Hebrew ...
18 A History of Judaism remains to this day, even if modern historians can now complement the Jewish and Greek sources with evid ...
deserts, tribes and empires 19 Hebrew inscriptions, the earliest agreed examples dated to the eighth century bce, confirm the ex ...
20 A History of Judaism Mesopotamia, a process dependent on both the region’s fertility and development of irrigation systems, l ...
deserts, tribes and empires 21 from which, according to the biblical account, the Israelites had emerged in the time of Joshua t ...
22 A History of Judaism although he would have been horrified by the suggestion that some of the tradition was invented. Most wo ...
deserts, tribes and empires 23 which can be correlated with external sources, biblical history takes on a much clearer definitio ...
24 A History of Judaism The sudden demise of the Persian empire in 331 bce through the conquests of Alexander of Macedon made li ...
deserts, tribes and empires 25 which led up to it. It will be evident that, although the structure and explicit purpose of Josep ...
2 The Formation of the Bible The Hebrew Bible, from which most of the history of the Jews discussed in the previous chapter is k ...
the formation of the bible 27 before a final editor redacted the texts to the form in which they are now preserved. Much critica ...
28 A History of Judaism attested in later centuries. Philo, Josephus and the authors of the Dead Sea scrolls treated the precise ...
the formation of the bible 29 single solar deity in the fourteenth century bce, but easier to trace is the reverse impact of Egy ...
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