Ancient Judaism

Ancient Judaism

Author: Max Weber

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-05-11

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 143911918X

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Weber’s classic study which deals specifically with: Types of Asceticism and the Significance of Ancient Judaism, History and Social Organization of Ancient Palestine, Political Organization and Religious Ideas in the Time of the Confederacy and the Early Kings, Political Decline, Religious Conflict and Biblical Prophecy.


Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism

Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism

Author: Jonathan Klawans

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-11-08

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0199928614

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Though considered one of the most important informants about Judaism in the first century CE, the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus's testimony is often overlooked or downplayed. Jonathan Klawans's Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism reexamines Josephus's descriptions of sectarian disagreements concerning determinism and free will, the afterlife, and scriptural authority. In each case, Josephus's testimony is analyzed in light of his works' general concerns as well as relevant biblical, rabbinic, and Dead Sea texts. Many scholars today argue that ancient Jewish sectarian disputes revolved primarily or even exclusively around matters of ritual law, such as calendar, cultic practices, or priestly succession. Josephus, however, indicates that the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes disagreed about matters of theology, such as afterlife and determinism. Similarly, many scholars today argue that ancient Judaism was thrust into a theological crisis in the wake of the destruction of the second temple in 70 CE, yet Josephus's works indicate that Jews were readily able to make sense of the catastrophe in light of biblical precedents and contemporary beliefs. Without denying the importance of Jewish law-and recognizing Josephus's embellishments and exaggerations-Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism calls for a renewed focus on Josephus's testimony, and models an approach to ancient Judaism that gives theological questions a deserved place alongside matters of legal concern. Ancient Jewish theology was indeed significant, diverse, and sufficiently robust to respond to the crisis of its day.


Ancient Judaism

Ancient Judaism

Author: Michael E. Stone

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2011-03-22

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0802866360

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"In Ancient Judaism: New Visions and Views Michael Stone examines a broad range of basic issues in the study of Second Temple Judaism and calls for a radical rethinking of approaches to Jewish history. Stone challenges scholars and students to question theologically conditioned histories of ancient Judaism devised by later orthodoxies, whether Jewish or Christian, and to acknowledge religious experience as a major factor in the composition and transmission of ancient religious documents. He urges readers to look above and beyond the spectacles of tradition and cultural memory that too often distort their understanding of the ancient past. Addressing an assortment of topics regarding the authorship, transmission, and interpretation of the canonical Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, apocryphal and pseudepigraphic literature, and more, Stone's Ancient Judaism underscores the stunning complexity of both the raw data and the resulting picture of Judaism in antiquity."--Publisher description.


Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism

Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism

Author: Annette Yoshiko Reed

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-16

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 052111943X

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A new explanation of the beginnings of Jewish angelology and demonology, drawing on non-canonical writings and Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls.


Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Ancient Judaism

Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Ancient Judaism

Author: Christian Frevel

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13: 9004232109

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Focusing on concepts, practices and images associated with purity in the ancient Mediterranean, this volume contributes new aspects to the current discussion about the forming of religious traditions, from a comparative perspective that acknowldges individual developments, mutual exchanges, as well as transcultural processes.


Pedagogy in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

Pedagogy in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

Author: Karina Martin Hogan

Publisher: SBL Press

Published: 2017-06-30

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0884142078

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Engage fourteen essays from an international group of experts There is little direct evidence for formal education in the Bible and in the texts of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. At the same time, pedagogy and character formation are important themes in many of these texts. This book explores the pedagogical purpose of wisdom literature, in which the concept of discipline (Hebrew musar) is closely tied to the acquisition of wisdom. It examines how and why the concept of musar came to be translated as paideia (education, enculturation) in the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (Septuagint), and how the concept of paideia was deployed by ancient Jewish authors writing in Greek. The different understandings of paideia in wisdom and apocalyptic writings of Second Temple Judaism are this book's primary focus. It also examines how early Christians adapted the concept of paideia, influenced by both the Septuagint and Greco-Roman understandings of this concept. Features A thorough lexical study of the term paideia in the Septuagint Exploration of the relationship of wisdom and Torah in Second Temple Judaism Examination of how Christians developed new forms of pedagogy in competition with Jewish and pagan systems of education


Early Judaism

Early Judaism

Author: George W. E. Nickelsburg

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published:

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1451408471

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Jewish writings from the period of Second Temple present a rich and complex variety of first-hand materials. Here, the editors have updated their classic sourcebook on Jewish beliefs and practices to take into account current thinking about the sources.


Ancient Judaism

Ancient Judaism

Author: Irving M. Zeitlin

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-07-12

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0745669255

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This book is a major contribution to the sociology of religion and to religious and biblical studies. Beginning from the classic work of Max Weber, the author analyses the origins of Judaism in the light of more recent scholarship. The result is a work that will become a standard point of reference in its field, and will be of great interest to the general reader as well as the specialist.


Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought

Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought

Author: Aaron Koller

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-01-09

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1107048354

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This book situates the book of Esther in the intellectual history of Ancient Judaism and provides a new understanding of its purpose.


Time and Process in Ancient Judaism

Time and Process in Ancient Judaism

Author: Sacha Stern

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2003-10-01

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1909821799

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This illuminating study is about the absence of time as an entity in itself in ancient Judaism, and the predominance instead of process in the ancient Jewish world-view. Evidence is drawn from a complete range of Jewish sources from this period.