Beginnings of Judaism
By: Isaiah M. Gafni
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: Great courses. Religion; Great courses (DVD)
Publisher: Teaching Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chantilly, VA
Language: eng
Subjects: Jews; History; Criticism, interpretation; Judaism; Jewish fundamentalism; Bible
Notes: "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"
Table of contents: title: Lecture 1. The beginnings of Judaism; title: Biblical roots; title: Lecture 2. New challenges in the late biblical period; title: Lecture 3. Jews under Persian rule; title: The return to Zion; title: Lecture 4. The challenge of Hellenism; title: Lecture 5. The Maccabees; title: From rebels to kings; title: Lecture 6. The canonization of the Hebrew Bible; title: Lecture 7. Translating the Bible; title: The Septuagint; title: Lecture 8. Adding to the Bible; title: The Apocrypha; title: Lecture 9. Tobit; title: A new path of righteousness; title: Lecture 10. Retelling the Bible; title: The book of Jubilees; title: Lecture 11. Revealing the unknown; title: Lecture 12. "Judaism" or "Judaisms"?; title: Lecture 13. Sectarianism; title: Pharisees and Sadducees; title: Lecture 14. Out of the caves; title: Discovery at Qumran; title: Lecture 15. The End of Days; title: Messianic eschatology; title: Lecture 16. Other lands, other Jews; title: The Diaspora; title: Lecture 17. Judaism in the Hellenistic world; title: Lecture 18. Changing God's address; title: Temple to synagogue; title: Lecture 19. Rome arrives in Jerusalem; title: Lecture 20. Parting with the temple; title: Lecture 21. From Jerusalem to Yavne; title: Rabbinic Judaism; title: Lecture 22. The shaping of Rabbinic Judaism; title: Lecture 23. A violent epilogue; title: Bar Kokhba; title: Lecture 24. From "Roots" to "Tree."