From the Maccabees to the Mishnah
From the Maccabees to the Mishnah

Author: Shaye J. D. Cohen

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0664227430

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In this new edition of a best-selling classic, Shaye Cohen offers a thorough analysis of Judaism's development from the early years of the Roman Empire to the formative period of rabbinic Judaism. Cohen's synthesis of religion, literature, and history offers deep insight into the nature of Judaism at this key period, including the relationship between Jews and Gentiles, the function of Jewish religion in the larger community, and the development of normative Judaism and other Jewish sects. In addition, Cohen provides clear explanations concerning the formation of the biblical canon and the roots of rabbinic Judaism. Now completely updated and revised, this book remains the clearest introduction to the era that shaped Judaism and provided the context for early Christianity. The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the New Testament developed.

From the Maccabees to the Mishnah
From the Maccabees to the Mishnah

Author: Shaye J. D. Cohen

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780664250171

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This book explores the period from the 160s to 63 B.C.E., when the Maccabees ruled the Jews, up to the publication of the Mishnah in the second century C.E.

From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, Third Edition
From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, Third Edition

Author: Shaye Cohen

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 2014-11-22

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1611645484

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This is the third edition of Shaye J. D. Cohen's important and seminal work on the history and development of Judaism between 164 BCE to 300 CE. Cohen's synthesis of religion, literature, and history offers deep insight into the nature of Judaism at this key period, including the relationship between Jews and Gentiles, the function of Jewish religion in the larger community, and the development of normative Judaism and other Jewish sects. Cohen offers students more than just history, but an understanding of the social and cultural context of Judaism as it developed into the formative period of rabbinic Judaism. This new edition includes a brand-new chapter on the parting of ways between Jews and Christians in the second century CE. From the Maccabees to the Mishnah remains the clearest introduction to the era that shaped Judaism and provided the context for early Christianity.

Jewish Literature Between the Bible and Mishnah
Jewish Literature Between the Bible and Mishnah

Author: George W. E. Nickelsburg

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2011-12-27

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1451408501

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In this fully revised and expanded edition, Nickelsburg introduces the reader to the broad range of Jewish literature that is not part of either the Bible or the standard rabbinic works. This includes especially the Apocrypha (such as 1 Maccabees), the Pseudepigrapha (such as 1 Enoch), the Dead Sea Scrolls, the works of Josephus, and the works of Philo.

Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism
Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism

Author: Hershel Shanks

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13:

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This book tells the story of the formation of classical Judaism and orthodox Christianity as parallel yet interlocking histories. Here, in a series of chapters written by leading scholars in this country and in Israel, the reader is offered a general account of how, during the first six centuries of the Common Era, Judaism and Christianity took the form we recognize today.

The Beginnings of Jewishness
The Beginnings of Jewishness

Author: Shaye J. D. Cohen

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 0520226933

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This is a study of the notion of Jewishness from c. 200 BCE to c. 200 CE. Reasonable and well-informed people disputed whether a given person was Jewish or not; Cohen opens by discussing just such an argument, about Herod the Great.

The Anointed and His People
The Anointed and His People

Author: Gerbern S. Oegema

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1998-08-01

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9781850758488

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In this systematic and radical work, Oegema studies the origins and development of expectations of a messiah-royal, priestly or prophetic. In five parts, all the Jewish and Christian literature from 200 BCE to 200 CE is analysed for its messianic interests. Special attention is devoted to the Pseudepigrapha, the Qumran literature, Philo, Josephus, the writings of the Early Church, the Jewish Apocalypses and the early Rabbinic writings. In this important work, Oegema contends that we cannot speak of a 'messianic idea' in Judaism, but that we can trace a historical trajectory of messianic expectations.

Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?
Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?

Author: Shaye J. D. Cohen

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2005-09-06

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0520212509

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"This book represents engaged scholarship at its very best. Cohen presents the vast range of texts at his command with brevity and wit. Elegantly written, this is a very stimulating book that is sure to provoke admiration, discussion, and controversy."—David Biale, author of Cultures of the Jews "A distinguished and wide-ranging work of scholarship. Cohen’s definitive discussion of the covenant of circumcision enhances our understanding of Jewish identity formation, women’s status in Judaism, Jewish-Christian polemic, and the impact of diverse cultural environments on the evolution of Jewish tradition."—Judith R. Baskin, author of Midrashic Women

Roots of Rabbinic Judaism
Roots of Rabbinic Judaism

Author: Boccaccini

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780802843616

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In a bold challenge to the long-held scholarly notion that Rabbinic Judaism already was an established presence during the Second Temple period, Boccaccini argues that Rabbinic Judaism was a daring reform movement that developed following the destruction of the Jerusalem temple and took shape in the first centuries of the common era.

An Introduction to Second Temple Judaism
An Introduction to Second Temple Judaism

Author: Lester L. Grabbe

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-06-10

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 0567296660

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An internationally respected expert on the Second Temple period provides a fully up-to-date introduction to this crucial area of Biblical Studies. This introduction, by a world leader in the field, provides the perfect guide to the Second Temple Period, its history, literature, and religious setting. Lester Grabbe magisterially guides the reader through the period providing a careful overview of the most studied sources, the history surrounding them and the various currents within Judaism at the time. This book will be a core text for courses on the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, as well as Qumran, Intertestamental Literature and Early Judaism.