Second Temple studies III : studies in politics, class, and material culture / edited by Philip R. Davies and John M. Halligan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davies, Philip R.

Halligan, John M.

Series:

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 340.

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 340

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D.

Jews.

Jews--Civilization--Greek influences.

Palestine--History--To 70 A.D.

Palestine.

Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume offers a systematic approach to the Persian, Ptolemaic, Seleucid and Hasmonean period, correlating social contexts with the biblical and post-biblical literature that each period generated. The list of contributors includes many of the pioneers of the field of Second Temple sociology, including Kenneth Hoglund, John Wright, Lester Grabbe, Richard Horsley, James Pasto, Robert Doran and the editors. The volume, which also includes an introductory essay on the methods and outcomes of this kind of exercise, furnishes an excellent introduction to the agenda of interpreting biblical text

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I: THE ACHAEMENID PERIOD; The Material Culture of the Persian Period and the Sociology of the Second Temple Period; A Tale of Three Cities: Urban Gates, Squares and Power in Iron Age II, Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Judah; PART II: THE 'HELLENISTIC' PERIOD(S); The Jews and Hellenization: Hengel and his Critics; The Material Culture of the Seleucid Period in Palestine: Social and Economic Observations; Ben Sira and the Sociology of the Second Temple; Conflicting Ideologies Concerning the Second Temple

Jewish Education in the Seleucid PeriodPART III: THE HASMONEANS; The Expansion of Hasmonean Rule in Idumea and Galilee: Toward a Historical Sociology; The Origin, Expansion and Impact of the Hasmoneans in Light of Comparative Ethnographic Studies (and Outside of its Nineteenth-Century Context); Betwixt and Between: The Samaritans in the Hasmonean Period; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786611802998

9781281802996

1281802999

9780567478818

0567478815

OCLC:

320325445