This is the third volume of the projected four-volume history of the Second Temple period, collecting all that is known about the Jews from the period of the Maccabaean revolt to Hasmonean rule and Herod the Great. Based directly on primary sources, the study addresses aspects such as Jewish literar
History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period - Volume 2: The Coming of the Greeks: The Early Hellenistic Period (335-175 BCE)
โ Scribed by Lester L. Grabbe
- Publisher
- T&T Clark
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 457
- Series
- Library of Second Temple Studies 68
- Category
- Library
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