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The Cambridge History of Judaism

Series The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 2

Edited by W. D. Davies and L. Finkelstein

Publication Date 1989

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521219297

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521219297

Overview

This is the second of four volumes covering the history of Judaism from the Persian period, roughly 539-322 BCE, to the Tannaitic period, which culminated in the codification of the Mishnah around 250 CE. It deals with the encounter of Judaism with the Hellenistic culture spread throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond by Alexander the Great and his successors. The volume describes both the rejection and adoption of Hellenism by Judaism. Religiously the rejection provoked new developments and politically the Maccabaean Revolt, which resulted in the creation of the independent Hasmonean state, 142-63 BCE. Culturally, the adoption of Hellenistic forms by Judaism led to a significant Jewish-Greek and Hebrew and Aramaic literature. At the same time, the tensions in the religious, intellectual, social and political life of Jews spawned apocalyptic thought and literature. In the light of the interpenetration of Judaism and Hellenism in this period the volume questions some established dichotomies.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

The archeology of Hellenistic Palestine
by
Marie-Christine Halpern-Zylberstein

The political and social History of Palestine from Alexander to Antiochus III (333–187 B.C.E.)
by
Martin Hengel

Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek in the Hellenistic age
by
James Barr

The Diaspora in the Hellenistic age
by
Harald Hegermann

The interpenetration of Judaism and Hellenism in the pre-Maccabean period
by
Martin Hengel

The men of the Great Synagogue (circa 400–170 .b.c.e.)
by
Louis Finkelstein

Pharisaic leadership after the Great Synagogue (170 B.C.E.–135 C.E.)
by
Louis Finkelstein

Antiochus IV
by
Otto Mørkholm

The Hasmonean revolt and the Hasmonean dynasty
by
Jonathan A. Goldstein

Jewish literature in Hebrew and Aramaic in the Greek era
by
Mathias Delcor

Jewish–Greek literature of the Greek period
by
Nikolaus Walter

The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Hellenistic period
by
Mathias Delcor

The book of Daniel
by
H. L. Ginsberg

The matrix of apocalyptic
by
Paul D. Hanson

The Septuagint and its Hebrew text
by
Harry M. Orlinsky

The Targumim
by
Roger Le Déaut

The Samaritans
by
James D. Purvis

The growth of anti-Judaism or the Greek attitude towards the Jews
by
Emilio Gabba

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