Jewish Civilization in the Hellenistic-Roman Period

Jewish Civilization in the Hellenistic-Roman Period / Shemaryahu Talmon......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Abbreviations......Page 11
List of Contributors......Page 13
Part I. History, Society, Literature......Page 15
The internal diversification of Judaism in the early Second Temple period / Shemaryahu Talmon......Page 16
The material culture of the Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period / Uriel Rappaport......Page 44
Religious and national factors in Israel\'s war with Rome / Thomas A. Idinopulos......Page 50
The import of early Rabbinic writings for an understanding of Judaism in the Hellenistic-Roman period / Gerald J. Blidstein......Page 64
Literary typologies and biblical interpretation in the Hellenistic-Roman period / Devorah Dimant......Page 73
The book of Ben Sira : implications for Jewish and Christian traditions / Maurice Gilbert......Page 81
Part II. Qumran between Judaism and Christianity......Page 93
The Qumran scrolls : a report on work in progress / John Strugnell......Page 94
Hebrew biblical manuscripts from the Judaean Desert: their contribution to textual criticism / Emanuel Tov......Page 107
Qumran and Rabbinic Halakhah / Lawrence H. Schiffman......Page 138
Recent Qumran discoveries and Halakhah in the Hellenistic-Roman period / Joseph M. Baumgarten......Page 147
Deviations from Scripture in the purity laws of the Temple Scroll / Jacob Milgrom......Page 159
Qumran in relation to the Apocrypha, Rabbinic Judaism, and nascent Christianity: impacts on university teaching of Jewish Civilization in the Hellenistic-Roman period / James H. Charlesworth......Page 168
The Qumran fragments of 1 Enoch and other apocryphal works: implications for the understanding of early Judaism and Christian origins / George W.E. Nickelsburg......Page 181
The \"Teacher of Righteousness\" and Jesus: two types of religious leadership in Judaism at the turn of the era / Hartmut Stegemann......Page 196
Between the Bible and the Mishnah: Qumran from within / Shemaryahu Talmon......Page 214
Index of References......Page 259
Index of Authors......Page 266