The Cambridge history of Judaism. Volume 1, Introduction : The Persian period / edited by W. D. Davies, Louis Finkelstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davies, W. D. (William David), 1911-2001, editor.

Finkelstein, Louis, 1895-1991, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 461 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Summary:

The first three volumes of The Cambridge History of Judaism cover the history of the Jews from the Exile in 587 BCE to the early Roman period extending into the third century CE. A comprehensive examination is made of all the relevant literary and archeological sources, and special attention is given to the interaction of Iranian, Semitic, Hellenistic and Roman cultures. The contributors include both Jewish and Gentile scholars from many countries, and this History thus helps to deliver the study of Jewish history and Christian origins from geographical and religious limitations, and contributes to a deeper understanding and a broader tolerance. This first volume opens with three introductory chapters to the work as a whole dealing with the geographical background, the chronology and the numismatic history of Judaism. The remainder of this volume concentrates on the Persian period, the two and a half centuries following the Babylonian Exile.

Contents:

The geography of Palestine and the Levant in relation to its history / Denis Baly

Numismatics / Uriel Rappaport

Calendars and chronology / Elias J. Bickerman

The Persian empire and the political and social history of Palestine in the Persian period / Ephraim Stern

The archaeology of Persian Palestine / Ephraim Stern

Hebrew and Aramaic in the Persian period / Joseph Naveh and Jonas C. Greenfield

The Jewish community in Palestine in the Persian period / Peter Ackroyd

Prophecy and Psalms in the Persian period / Gunther Wanke

Wisdom literature in the Persian period / Hartmut Gese

Jewish religious life in the Persian period / Morton Smith

Persian life in the Achemenid age / Mary Boyce

Iranian influence on Judaism : first century B.C.E. to second century C.E. / Shaud Shaked

The Diaspora. Babylonia in the Persian age / M. Dandamayev ; The Babylonian captivity / Elias J. Bickerman ; Egypt, Persian satrapy / Edda Bresciani ; The Jews in Egypt / Bezalel Porten.

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ISBN:

9781139055116 (ebook)

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