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Introduction; The Persian Period

Series The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 1

Edited by W. D. Davies and Louis Finkelstein

Publication Date 1984

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521218801

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521218801

Overview

The first three volumes of The Cambridge History of Judaism cover the history of the Jews from the Exile in 5 87 B.C.E. to the early Roman period extending into the third century C.E. A comprehensive examination is made of all the relevant literary and archeological sources, and special attention is given to the interaction of Iranian, Semitic, Hellenistic and Roman cultures. The contributors include both Jewish and Gentile scholars from many countries, and this History thus helps to deliver the study of Jewish history and Christian origins from geographical and religious limitations, and contributes to a deeper understanding and a broader tolerance. This first volume opens with three introductory chapters to the work as a whole dealing with the geographical background, the chronology and the numismatic history of Judaism. The remainder of this volume concentrates on the Persian period, the two and a half centuries following the Babylonian Exile.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
Introduction; The Persian Period in the Cambridge University Press online
catalogue.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction

The Persian Period

General Bibliography on the Persian Period

Chronological Table

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