Understanding Second Temple and rabbinic Judaism
By: by Lawrence H. Schiffman ; edited by Jon Bloomberg and Samuel Kapustin.
Publisher: Ktav Pub. House
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Jersey City, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
Subjects: Judaism -- History; Jews -- History; Judaism -- History; Jews -- History
Description: Describes the Second Temple period (the first few centuries before and after the common era) and its influence on the development of Rabbinic Judaism, which is the foundation for all of modern Judaism.
Table of contents: title: The Biblical heritage; title: Judaism in the Persian period; title: The Hellenistic Age; title: Judaism in the Hellenistic Diaspora; title: Sectarianism in the Second Commonwealth; title: Apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, and the Dead Sea Scrolls; title: The Jewish-Christian schism; title: Revolt; title: Restoration; title: Mishnah: the new scripture; title: Formative Judaism comes of age; title: The sea of the Talmud; title: Epilogue: the triumph of the Babylonian Talmud.