Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview

✍ Scribed by John J. Collins, Daniel C. Harlow

• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 536
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Culled from The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, a monumental, groundbreaking reference work published in late 2010, Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview contains fifteen first-rate essays from a diverse group of internationally renowned scholars. This volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative overview available of Judaism in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods.

✦ Table of Contents

John J. Collins: Early Judaism in Modern Scholarship
Chris Seeman and Adam Kolman Marshak: Jewish History from Alexander to Hadrian
James C. VanderKam: Judaism in the Land of Israel
Erich S. Gruen: Judaism in the Diaspora
Eugene Ulrich: The Jewish Scriptures: Texts, Versions, Canons
James L. Kugel: Early Jewish Biblical Interpretation
Loren T. Stuckenbruck: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Eibert Tigchelaar: The Dead Sea Scrolls
Katell Berthelot: Early Jewish Literature Written in Greek
Gregory E. Sterling, David T. Runia, Maren R. Niehoff, and Annewies van den Hoek: Philo
Steve Mason, James S. McLaren, and John M. G. Barclay: Josephus
Jürgen K. Zangenberg: Archaeology, Papyri, and Inscriptions
Miriam Pucci Ben Zeev: Jews among Greeks and Romans
Daniel C. Harlow: Early Judaism and Early Christianity
Lawrence H. Schiffman: Early Judaism and Rabbinic Judaism

✦ Subjects

Религиоведение;Религиоведение иудаизма;История иудаизма;