The Cambridge History of Judaism Volumes 1-3
The Cambridge History of Judaism Volumes 1-3
Louis Finkelstein
William Horbury , University of Cambridge
John Sturdy
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The first three volumes of The Cambridge History of Judaism cover the history of the Jews from the Exile in 587 BCE to the end of the early Roman era. These volumes present a definitive scholarly account of enduring value to anyone enquiring into the formative years of Judaism and its relation to other cultures, be they students, teachers or interested general readers. For the first time, the three volumes are offered together at a special price. Volume One (published in 1984) opens with an introduction to the project and proceeds with coverage of the Persian period. Volume Two (1989) deals with the Hellenistic age. Volume Three (1999) focuses on the early Roman period of Jewish history from Pompey to Vespasian, with themes extending to the end of the third century CE. Complete with illustrations, tables and maps, these books constitute a major work of reference on a key topic.
- Three volumes offered together at a special price for the first time
- The definitive scholarly account of this major subject
- Complete with illustrations, tables and maps: an invaluable work of reference
Product details
December 2000Hardback
9780521802826
2551 pages
236 × 159 × 141 mm
4.005kg
17 b/w illus. 16 maps 4 tables
Unavailable - out of print September 2007
Table of Contents
- Volume I. Introduction: The Persian Period: Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Part I. Introduction:
- 1. The geography of Palestine and the Levant in relation to its history
- 2. Numismatics
- 3. Calendars and chronology
- Part II. The Persian Period:
- 4. The Persian empire and the political and social history of Palestine in the Persian period
- 5. The archaeology of Persian Palestine
- 6. Hebrew and Aramaic in the Persian period
- 7. The Jewish community in Palestine in the Persian period
- 8. Prophecy and Psalms in the Persian period
- 9. Wisdom literature in the Persian period
- 10. Jewish religious life in the Persian period
- 11. Persian life in the Achemenid age
- 12. Iranian influence on Judaism: first century BCE to second century CE
- 13. The Diaspora: A. Babylonia in the Persian age
- B. The Babylonian captivity
- C. Egypt, Persian satrapy
- D. The Jews in Egypt
- Bibliographies
- Index
- Chronological table. Volume II. The Hellenistic Age: Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Map of the Hellenistic empire
- 1. The archeology of Hellenistic Palestine
- 2. The political and social history of Palestine from Alexander to Antiochus III (333–187 BCE)
- 3. Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek in the Hellenistic age
- 4. The Diaspora in the Hellenistic age
- 5. The interpenetration of Judaism and Hellenism in the pre-Maccabean period
- 6. The men of the Great Synagogue (circa 400–170 BCE)
- 7. The Pharisaic leadership after the Great Synagogue (170 BCE–135 CE)
- 8. Antiochus IV
- 9. The Hasmonean revolt and the Hasmonean dynasty
- 10. Jewish literature in Hebrew and Aramaic in the Greek era
- 11. Jewish-Greek literature of the Greek period
- 12. The apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the Hellenistic period
- 13. The book of Daniel
- 14. The matrix of apocalyptic
- 15. The Septuagint and its Hebrew text
- 16. The Targumim
- 17. The Samaritans
- 18. The growth of anti-Judaism or the Greek attitude towards Jews
- Bibliographies
- Chronological table
- Index. Volume III. The Early Roman Period:
- 1. The archaeology of Palestine 63 BCE–CE 70
- 2. The Herodian temple
- 3. Archaeology in Palestine in recent decades: achievements and goals
- 4. The contribution of inscriptions of the study of Judaism
- 5. The social, economic and political history of Palestine from 63 BCE–CE 70
- 6. The Diaspora in the Roman period before 70 CE
- 7. The Gentiles in Judaism 125 BCE–CE 66
- 8. Gentiles as seen by Jews after CE 70
- 9. The synagogue
- 10. The temple and the synagogue
- 11. The early liturgy of the synagogue
- 12. Women in the synagogue
- 13. The Pharisees
- 14. The Sadducees
- 15. The Essenes
- 16. The Baptist sects
- 17. The troublemakers
- 18. The Samaritans and their sects
- 19. Galilean Judaism and Judean Judaism
- 20. Jesus from the Jewish point of view
- 21. Paul from the Jewish point of view
- 22. Jewish Christianity
- 23. Apocalyptic: the disclosure of heavenly knowledge
- 24. The Qumran sectarian writings
- 25. The Dead Sea scrolls and pre-Tannaitic Judaism
- 26. Prayer in the Qumran texts
- 27. Philo of Alexandria
- 28. Josephus (CE 37–c. 100)
- 29. The Rabbi in second century Jewish society
- 30. The Roman diaspora 70 CE–235
- the archaeological evidence
- 31. The legacy of Egypt in Judaism
- 32. Jewish elements in gnosticism and magic c. 70 CE–c. 270 CE.
