Judaism : Practice and Belief, 63 BCE-66 CE / E.P. Sanders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanders, E. P., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Social life and customs--To 70 A.D.

Jews.

Judaism--Customs and practices.

Judaism.

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

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (924 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2016]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In this now-classic work, E. P. Sanders argued against prevailing views regarding the Judaism of the Second Temple period, for example, that the Pharisees dominated Jewish Palestine or that the Mishnah offers a description of general practice. In contrast, Sanders carefully shows that what was important was the "common Judaism" of the people with their observances of regular practices and the beliefs that informed them. Sanders discusses early rabbinic legal material not as rules, but as debates within the context of real life. He sets Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes in relation to the Judaism of ordinary priests and people. Here then is a remarkably comprehensive presentation of Judaism as a functioning religion: the temple and its routine and festivals; questions of purity, sacrifices, tithes, and taxes; common theology and hopes for the future; and descriptions of the various parties and groups culminating in an examination of the question "who ran what?" Sanders offers a detailed, clear, and well-argued account of all aspects of Jewish religion of the time.

Contents:

Preface

part I. Context

1. Preview

2. The issues that generated parties

3. Historical outline of the Roman period

4. The context of conflict

part II. Common Judaism

5. Common Judaism and the temple

6. The ordinary priests and the Levites : at work in the temple

7. Sacrifices

8. The common people : daily life and annual festivals

9. Tithes and taxes

10. The priests and Levites outside the temple

11. Observing the law of God I : general characteristics, worship and Sabbath

12. Observing the law of God II : circumcision, purity, food, charity and love

13. Common theology

14. Hopes for the future

part III. Groups and parties

15. Aristocrats and Sadducees

16. The Essenes and the Dead Sea sect I : origins, history, membership and organization

17. The Essenes and the Dead Sea sect II : further aspects of practice and belief

18. The Pharisees I : history

19. The Pharisees II : theology and practice

20. Other Pietists

21. Who ran what?

22. Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 779-796) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5064-0817-6

OCLC:

957127575