The Cambridge History of Judaism
Volumes 1-3

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.