Judaic Religion in the Second Temple Period

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Belief and Practice from the Exile to Yavneh

By: Lester L. Grabbe

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Hardcover Published: 3rd August 2000
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Number Of Pages: 448

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The developments in Judaism which occurred during the Second Temple period (c. 550 BC to 100 AD) were of great importance for the nature of Jewish religion in later centuries, yet few studies have examined the era in full. Now Lester L. Grabbe's lucid and accessible volume provides a much-needed encyclopedic study and holistic interpretation of the period.
Topics examined include:
* views about God and the spirit world
* the temple and priesthood
* scripture and synagogue
* the main religious sects and revolutionary movements
* eschatology and messianism
* magic and predicting the future
* religion in the Jewish diaspora
* converts and 'Godfearers'.
With an extensive, up-to-date bibliography, plus numerous helpful cross-references, summaries and syntheses, this book is essential reading for scholars and students of the history of Jewish religion. It will also be of great value as a reference tool.

Industry Reviews

'... this is a very important reference work ... and can be trusted as a guide to the latest thinking in the vast area of study, having a breadth of discussion and extensive bibliography that makes it almost like an encyclopedia of Jewish religion in the period.' - Jason Bray, Journal of Theological Studies

'Because of the extremely well organised structure and lucid argument of the book, as well as the many references to recent studies, the work is bound to be a very important reference tool and handbook for those studying early Judiac religion.' - Review of Books

Preface	p. xiii
List of abbreviations	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
Aims of this study	p. 1
Definitions	p. 3
Religion	p. 3
Judaic	p. 5
Second Temple period	p. 5
Apologia pro historia mea	p. 6
Some technical matters	p. 9
Chronological survey	p. 11
Persian period (539-333 BCE)	p. 13
Major sources	p. 13
Books of Ezra and Nehemiah	p. 13
Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi	p. 15
Joel	p. 17
Jonah	p. 17
Isaiah 56-66	p. 18
Books of Chronicles	p. 19
Proverbs	p. 21
Job	p. 22
Esther	p. 23
Ruth	p. 25
Song of Songs	p. 25
The P Document	p. 26
Archaeology, papyri, and coins	p. 28
Synthesis	p. 29
Early Greek period (333-200 BCE)	p. 37
Major sources	p. 37
Hecateus of Abdera	p. 37
Zenon papyri	p. 39
The story of the Tobiads	p. 40
Ethiopic Enoch (1 Enoch) and the Book of Giants	p. 41
Qohelet (Ecclesiastes)	p. 42
Tobit	p. 44
The edicts of Antiochus III	p. 46
Demetrius the Chronographer	p. 48
The Septuagint translation of the Bible	p. 49
Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus)	p. 50
Synthesis	p. 52
Later Greek period and Hasmoneans (200-63 BCE)	p. 59
Major sources	p. 59
1 and 2 Maccabees	p. 59
Daniel	p. 60
1 Enoch 83-105	p. 62
Book of Jubilees	p. 63
Sibylline Oracles 3-5	p. 64
Judith	p. 65
1 Baruch	p. 66
Qumran scrolls	p. 67
Fragmentary Jewish Writers in Greek	p. 70
Pseudo-Hecateus	p. 73
Testament of Moses (Assumption of Moses)	p. 74
Letter of (Pseudo-) Aristeas	p. 75
Synthesis	p. 76
Under Roman rule (63 BCE-70 CE)	p. 84
Major sources	p. 84
Psalms of Solomon	p. 84
3 Maccabees	p. 86
Wisdom of Solomon	p. 86
Pseudo-Phocylides	p. 88
Philo of Alexandria	p. 89
Josephus	p. 92
Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum (Pseudo-Philo)	p. 94
Adam and Eve literature	p. 95
Similitudes (Parables) of Enoch (1 Enoch 37-71)	p. 97
Sibylline Oracles	p. 97
Slavonic Enoch (2 Enoch)	p. 98
4 Maccabees	p. 99
Testament of Moses	p. 100
Testament of Abraham	p. 100
Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs	p. 101
Testament of Job	p. 104
Joseph and Asenath	p. 105
Judean Desert manuscripts, inscriptions, and archaeology	p. 106
Synthesis	p. 108
Transition to rabbinic Judaism: Yavneh	p. 116
Major sources	p. 116
Rabbinic literature	p. 116
Apocalypses of Ezra, Baruch, Abraham, and John	p. 117
Sibylline Oracles	p. 120
The reconstruction at Yavneh	p. 120
Synthesis	p. 124
Special topics	p. 127
Temple and priesthood	p. 129
Theological basis of the cult	p. 129
Temple and cult	p. 132
The physical temple	p. 134
The cultic personnel	p. 135
Financial support for the temple	p. 137
The cultic rituals	p. 138
Women and the cult	p. 140
The cultic year: sabbath and annual festivals	p. 141
Music and singing	p. 143
The high priest and "the Sanhedrin"	p. 144
Synthesis	p. 147
Scripture, prayer, and synagogue	p. 150
Scribes and literacy	p. 150
Scripture and canon	p. 152
Main texts	p. 153
Conclusions about canonization	p. 156
Development of the text	p. 158
Summary about textual developments	p. 164
Scriptural interpretation	p. 165
Conclusions about scriptural interpretation	p. 169
Prayer and the rise of the synagogue	p. 170
"Popular religion"	p. 175
Synthesis	p. 178
Sects and movements	p. 183
Beginnings of sectarianism	p. 183
Sadducees and Pharisees	p. 185
Josephus	p. 187
New Testament	p. 192
Rabbinic literature	p. 194
4QMMT and the Temple Scroll (11QT)	p. 196
Summary and conclusions	p. 196
Essenes	p. 199
Sources	p. 200
The question of Qumran	p. 201
Some tentative conclusions	p. 205
Other sects and groups	p. 206
Synthesis	p. 206
Concepts of the Deity and the spirit world	p. 210
Developing views about God	p. 210
Ancient Israel	p. 212
Innovations during the Second Temple period	p. 215
The question of monotheism	p. 216
The spirit world	p. 219
Main texts	p. 220
Summary on angelic beings	p. 224
The figure of Wisdom and the Logos	p. 225
Main texts	p. 225
Summary of the figure of Wisdom	p. 227
The Logos tradition	p. 228
Synthesis	p. 230
Prophecy, apocalypticism, the esoteric arts, and predicting the future	p. 232
Problems of definition	p. 232
Did prophecy cease in the Second Temple period?	p. 236
Main texts	p. 237
Conclusions	p. 239
The esoteric arts and their use	p. 241
Astrology	p. 241
Dreams	p. 243
Textual interpretation	p. 245
Chronography	p. 246
Magic, mysticism, and controlling the spirits	p. 248
Prophetic and charismatic individuals	p. 251
Synthesis	p. 254
Eschatologies and ideas of salvation	p. 257
Main texts	p. 257
Synthesis	p. 266
Personal eschatology: ideas about life after death	p. 267
Heavens and hells	p. 268
Cosmic eschatology: expectations about the end of the world	p. 269
Messiahs	p. 271
Main texts	p. 271
Hebrew Bible	p. 271
Ben Sira	p. 273
Qumran scrolls	p. 273
Psalms of Solomon	p. 276
Similitudes of Enoch (1 Enoch 37-71)	p. 276
Philo	p. 276
Josephus	p. 278
4 Ezra/2 Baruch	p. 279
Sibylline Oracles	p. 280
New Testament	p. 280
Rabbinic literature	p. 281
The "Son of Man"	p. 282
Sicarii, Zealots, and other "revolutionary" groups	p. 283
General comments	p. 284
The "Fourth Philosophy" and the Sicarii	p. 285
Zealots	p. 287
Synthesis	p. 288
Jews and Judaism in the Hellenistic world	p. 292
How they saw themselves	p. 292
Jewish identity and conversion	p. 292
Ideology of the land and the concept of exile	p. 297
Gender and sexuality	p. 300
How others saw them	p. 305
Philo-Judaism and anti-Judaism	p. 305
Religious tolerance	p. 308
Synthesis	p. 310
Conclusion	p. 313
Judaism in the Second Temple period: a holistic perspective	p. 315
Bibliography	p. 335
Indexes	p. 387
Index of modern authors	p. 387
Index of names and subjects	p. 396
Index of citations	p. 407
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ISBN: 9780415212502
ISBN-10: 0415212502
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 448
Published: 3rd August 2000
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15.88 x 3.18
Weight (kg): 0.73
Edition Number: 1