Early Judaism- A Comprehensive Overview

fluential. According to theHistoria Augusta,the revolt began because Hadrian issued an edict prohibiting circumcision (14.2). Th ...

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Judaism in the Land of Israel James C. VanderKam Judaismas a designation for the entire phenomenon of the Jewish ways of living ...

dispersed people of God would be gathered to their home (e.g., Isa. 11:10- 16; Ezek. 37:15-28), and that longing comes to expres ...

family of Joshua/Jeshua (the first high priest of the Second Temple), who held the post in hereditary succession (Neh. 12:10-11) ...

Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Ta- bernacles (Exod. 23:14-17; 34:18-24; Deut. 16:1-17) ...

the firstlings of the flock, the tithes of the cattle, and the first shearings of the sheep. I would give these to the priests, ...

Qumran decrees that the tax be paid only once in a person’s lifetime (4Q159 1 ii 6-7) — perhaps a polemical view based on Exod. ...

festivals the nature of the calendar by which they were calculated. In the priestly portions of the Torah, the months are design ...

prayer. Synagogues appear not to have been seen as rivals in some sense to the Temple but rather as complements to it. Instituti ...

a few times, and Antigonus briefly claimed the royal office (40-37b.c.e.). Josephus indicates that in the first century the aris ...

up five sanhedrins in Jewish territory in the 50sb.c.e.(Ant.14.91), but not long afterward the historian relates the story of yo ...

tion of Greek ways. The contrast should not be pictured as absolute, since Hellenistic influence, such as the spread of the Gree ...

which had been handed down by former generations need not be observed” (13.297). The meaning of this distinction in views betwee ...

Pharisees are identified as the members of the Sanhedrin who accept the belief that a resurrection would occur. It adds that the ...

Ananus followed the Sadducean school and that Sadducees were noted for being harsher than others in judgment (Ant.20.199). A hig ...

both the Essenes and the Sadducees adopted conservative, stricter under- standings of the Law. The community of the Dead Sea Scr ...

Esther Many of the psalms Ecclesiastes Daniel Third Isaiah (Isaiah 56–66) Joel Haggai Zechariah Malachi Perhaps there are other ...