Early Judaism- A Comprehensive Overview

The censure which Jewish scholars have unanimously passed onDie Re- ligion des Judentumsis that the author uses as his primary s ...

nizes that Jewish literature from this period, including the tannaitic liter- ature, is very varied. Yet he argues that “a commo ...

speaking of “Judaisms” rather than “Judaism” (e.g., Neusner, Green, and Frerichs 1987: ix). The plural has been adopted by some ...

The Place of the Pseudepigrapha In his critique of Bousset, Moore acknowledged that critical use of the rab- binic writings is d ...

Jewish a work like2 Baruch,which was clearly written by a Torah- observant Jew, against the objections of Rivkah Nir (2003), who ...

of the Twelve Patriarchs.This collection is clearly Christian in its present form. One of its distinctive features is the expect ...

very explicit even there. Davila notes thatSibylline Oracles5 shows no inter- est in circumcision, dietary laws, or the Sabbath, ...

pha in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this literature re- ceived little scholarly attention for more than ha ...

earliest segments of the tradition (Sacchi 1997). The generative question was the origin of evil, and the answer was that it was ...

What is true of the Enoch literature, however, is not necessarily true of all the Pseudepigrapha, or even of all apocalyptic lit ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls The most important development for the study of early Judaism in the past century was undoubtedly the disco ...

sectarian context. These include the biblical books, but also compositions like the books ofEnochandJubilees,which apparently we ...

apparently addressed to a leader of Israel, and it outlines the reasons for the separation of a sectarian group from the majorit ...

the flood story with a pesher-style interpretation of the Blessing of Jacob in Genesis 49. The scrolls also provide ample eviden ...

ian rule books (Metso 1998). TheCommunity RuleandDamascus Docu- mentdescribe a complex sectarian movement that had more than one ...

king, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, had disrupted the Jerusalem cult and given the Temple over to a Syrian garrison. The revolt was no ...

Judaism. In theLetter of Aristeas,the Ptolemy and his counselors are greatly impressed by the wisdom of the Jewish sages.Aristea ...

taxation, the Romans drew a sharper line between citizen and noncitizen than was the case the Ptolemaic era. Jews responded by t ...

embracing most aspects of Hellenistic culture other than idolatry. (On the degrees of assimilation and acculturation, see Barcla ...

Bickerman, Elias J. 1937.Der Gott der Makkabäer.Berlin: Schocken. Boccaccini, Gabriele. 1991.Middle Judaism: Jewish Thought, 300 ...