Early Judaism- A Comprehensive Overview

the king with swift and pithy answers, adding a reference to God in each response, and earning the admiration not only of Ptolem ...

“assimilation” and “accommodation” deliver misleading impressions that are best avoided, suggesting that the Jews needed to tran ...

peror Augustus, in reference to the notorious intrigues and murders that took place in the household of Herod, famously observed ...

Jews of Jerusalem invited their compatriots in Egypt to commemorate the purification of the Temple in their own Diaspora locatio ...

the form of images. Such practice they reckoned as profaning the spiritual essence of God. The stance, of course, derives from t ...

of Gentiles entering into Jewish society in some fashion is incontrovert- ible. This did not require conversion — nor necessaril ...

sympathetically involved with the Jewish community and who lived in ac- cord with at least some of its precepts. The terminology ...

pired to and obtained civic privileges in the cities of the Hellenistic world. Josephus maintains that Jews have every right to ...

ish identity — not supplanted by the Book or disavowed by those who dwelled afar. It appears again and again in the texts of Sec ...

tithe did not signify a desire for the “Return.” It rendered the Return un- necessary. A comparable institution reinforces that ...

translation and have it read out to the Jews of Egypt, the large assembly bursts into applause, a dramatic expression of the uni ...

With regard to news of Caligula’s decision to erect a statue in the Temple, Philo’s description is telling: the most grievous ca ...

None of this, of course, suggests that the experience of Jews in the Dias- pora was everywhere and always untroubled, serene, an ...

Collins, John J. 2000.Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenis- tic Diaspora.2d ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. ...

Tcherikover, Victor. 1961.Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews.Trans. S. Apple- baum. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society ...

The Jewish Scriptures: Texts, Versions, Canons Eugene Ulrich The texts that eventually came to constitute the canonical books of ...

scribes passed on the traditions, faithfully retaining the earlier message, and at times creatively adapting them to address new ...

to form what became the Tetrateuch or Hexateuch: the promise to the pa- triarchs, the guidance out of Egypt, the wandering throu ...

psalms emphasized themes of lament and the ideal of Torah as wisdom. New works, such as Chronicles and Ezra, Haggai and Zecharia ...

the early second centuryb.c.e.,Jubileesclearly attests this: “The Lordre- vealed to him...”(Jub.1:4), and “The angel of the pres ...