The development of the high priesthood during the pre-Hasmonean period
Subtitle: history, ideology, theology
By: by Maria Brutti.
Series: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism -- v. 108
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Josephus, Flavius.; Bible. -- O.T. -- Apocrypha. -- Maccabees -- History of Biblical events.; Jewish high priests -- History.; Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D.
Description: "This book deals with the Jewish High Priesthood between 301-152 BCE. It is of a historical-biblical-theological nature. Historical, inasmuch as it refers to a chronological period and to the historiographic sources: biblical and theological because it questions a Biblical institution, its meaning and its religious function."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and indexes.