Simeon the Righteous in Rabbinic Literature
Simeon the Righteous in Rabbinic Literature

Author: Amram Tropper

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9004244980

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The rabbinic traditions -- 2. Simeon the Righteous, the great assembly of Avot and the rabbinization of early Second Temple Judaism -- 3. Simeon the Righteous and the origins of the world's three pillars -- 4. Simeon the Righteous and the narcissistic Nazirite -- 5. Simeon the Righteous and Alexander the Great -- 6. Simeon the Righteous and the Temple of Onias -- 7. Simeon the Righteous in Second Temple chronology.

Dictionary of World Biography
Dictionary of World Biography

Author: Frank Northen Magill

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2003-01-23

Total Pages: 1354

ISBN-13: 1579580408

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Containing 250 entries, each volume of theDictionary of World Biographycontains examines the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. Much more than a 'Who's Who', each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements, and conclude with a fully annotated bibliography. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. Any student in the field will want to have one of these as a handy reference companion.

The Ancient World
The Ancient World

Author: Frank N. Magill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-12-16

Total Pages: 1354

ISBN-13: 1135457409

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Containing 250 entries, each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains examines the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. Much more than a 'Who's Who', each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements, and conclude with a fully annotated bibliography. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. Any student in the field will want to have one of these as a handy reference companion.

The Chosen Few
The Chosen Few

Author: Maristella Botticini

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-10-12

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0691163510

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Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein show that, contrary to previous explanations, this transformation was driven not by anti-Jewish persecution and legal restrictions, but rather by changes within Judaism itself after 70 CE--most importantly, the rise of a new norm that required every Jewish male to read and study the Torah and to send his sons to school. Over the next six centuries, those Jews who found the norms of Judaism too costly to obey converted to other religions, making world Jewry shrink. Later, when urbanization and commercial expansion in the newly established Muslim Caliphates increased the demand for occupations in which literacy was an advantage, the Jews found themselves literate in a world of almost universal illiteracy. From then forward, almost all Jews entered crafts and trade, and many of them began moving in search of business opportunities, creating a worldwide Diaspora in the process.

The Jewish Revolts Against Rome, A.D. 66-135
The Jewish Revolts Against Rome, A.D. 66-135

Author: James J. Bloom

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0786460202

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During the first and second centuries A.D., the supremacy of the Roman Empire was aggressively challenged by three Jewish rebellions. The facts surrounding the initial uprising of A.D. 66-74 have been filtered through the biased accounts of Judeao Roman historian Flavius Josephus. Primary information regarding the subsequent Diaspora Revolt (A.D. 115-117) and the Bar Kochba Rebellion (A.D. 132-135) is limited to fragmentary anecdotes emphasizing the religious implications of the two insurrections. In contrast, this analytical history focuses objectively on the military aspects of all three Judean uprisings. The events leading up to each rebellion are detailed, while the nine appendices cover such topics as the nature and number of the Jewish rebels and the factual reliability of the controversial Josephus. One appendix hypothesizes an alternative history of the war between Jerusalem and Rome.

The Messiah of Peace
The Messiah of Peace

Author: Thomas E. Boomershine

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 1498236081

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The telling of Mark's story of Jesus as the Messiah of peace in the decades following the Roman-Judean war announced a third way forward for Diaspora Judeans other than warfare against or separation from "the nations." Mark's Gospel was the story of the victory of a nonviolent Messiah who taught and practiced the ways of a new age of peace and reconciliation in contrast to the ancient and modern myth of redemptive violence. The Messiah of Peace is a performance-criticism commentary exploring a new paradigm of biblical scholarship that takes seriously the original experience of the Gospel of Mark as a lively story told to audiences rather than as a text read by readers. The commentary is correlated with the Messiah of Peace website, which features video recordings of the story in both English and Greek. Critical investigation of the sounds of the Markan passion-resurrection narrative reveals the identity of its original audiences as predominantly Judean with a minority of Gentile nonbelievers. Hearing the passion-resurrection story was an experience of involvement in the forces that led to the rejection and death of Jesus--an experience that brought on the challenges inherent in becoming a disciple of the Messiah of peace.