Judaism Before Jesus
Subtitle: The Events and Ideas That Shaped the New Testament World
Publisher: Intervarsity Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Downers Grove, IL
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780830827305
Copyright date: 2003
First sentence: Imagine you're sitting in your living room engrossed in an old-fashioned mystery movie.
Table of contents: title: Putting together the past -- Returning and rebuilding -- The Persian impact on Judaism -- The Greeks in the East -- The fight for freedom -- Jewish diversity in the Hasmonean era -- The second Jewish commonwealth -- The Hellenistic inheritance -- The Romans and the Jews -- Oppression, resistance, and messianic hopes -- Epilogue: Anno Domini -- A compendium of Jewish history.