TY - BOOK AU - Grabbe,Lester L. TI - Judaic religion in the Second Temple period: belief and practice from the Exile to Yavneh SN - 9781134615629 AV - BM176 .G68 2000eb U1 - 296/.09/014 22 PY - 2000/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Bible KW - Old Testament KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - A.T KW - Critique, interprétation, etc KW - fast KW - Bible. A.T KW - ram KW - Judaism KW - History KW - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D KW - T KW - Judaïsme KW - Histoire KW - 586 av. J.-C.-210 (Période postexilique) KW - Post-exilic period (Judaism) KW - Jodendom KW - gtt KW - 586 av. J.-C.-210 (période postexilique) KW - Frühjudentum KW - swd KW - RELIGION / Judaism / General KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 35-386) and indexes; Religion; 3 --; Judaic; 5 --; Second Temple period; 5 --; Apologia pro historia mea; 6 --; Some technical matters; 9 --; Part I; Chronological survey; 11 --; 2; Persian period (539-333 BCE); 13 --; Major sources; 13 --; Books of Ezra and Nehemiah; 13 --; Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi; 15 --; Joel; 17 --; Jonah; 17 --; Isaiah 56-66; 18 --; Books of Chronicles; 19 --; Proverbs; 21 --; Job; 22 --; Esther; 23 --; Ruth; 25 --; Song of Songs; 25 --; P Document; 26 --; Archaeology, papyri, and coins; 28 --; Synthesis; 29 --; 3; Early Greek period (333-200 BCE); 37 --; Hecateus of Abdera; 37 --; Zenon papyri; 39 --; Story of the Tobiads; 40 --; Ethiopic Enoch (1 Enoch) and the Book of Giants; 41 --; Qohelet (Ecclesiastes); 42 --; Tobit; 44 --; Edicts of Antiochus III; 46 --; Demetrius the Chronographer; 48 --; Septuagint translation of the Bible; 49 --; Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus); 50 --; Synthesis; 52 --; 4; Later Greek period and Hasmoneans (200-63 BCE); 59 --; Major sources; 59 --; 1 and 2 Maccabees; 59 --; Daniel; 60 --; 1 Enoch 83-105; 62 --; Book of Jubilees; 63 --; Sibylline Oracles 3-5; 64 --; Judith; 65 --; 1 Baruch; 66 --; Qumran scrolls; 67 --; Fragmentary Jewish Writers in Greek; 70 --; Pseudo-Hecateus; 73 --; Testament of Moses (Assumption of Moses); 74 --; Letter of (Pseudo- ) Aristeas; 75 --; Synthesis; 76 --; 5; Under Roman rule (63 BCE-70 CE); 84 --; Major sources; 84 --; Psalms of Solomon; 84 --; 3 Maccabees; 86 --; Wisdom of Solomon; 86 --; Pseudo-Phocylides; 88 --; Philo of Alexandria; 89 --; Josephus; 92 --; Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum (Pseudo-Philo); 94 --; Adam and Eve literature; 95 --; Similitudes (Parables) of Enoch (1 Enoch 37-71); 97 --; Sibylline Oracles; 97 --; Slavonic Enoch (2 Enoch); 98 --; 4 Maccabees; 99 --; Testament of Moses; 100 --; Testament of Abraham; 100 --; Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs; 101 --; Testament of Job; 104 --; Joseph and Asenath; 105 --; Judean Desert manuscripts, inscriptions, and archaeology; 106 --; 6; Transition to rabbinic Judaism: Yavneh; 116 --; Major sources; 116 --; Rabbinic literature; 116 --; Apocalypses of Ezra, Baruch, Abraham, and John; 117 --; Sibylline Oracles; 120 --; Reconstruction at Yavneh; 120 --; 7; Temple and priesthood; 129 --; Theological basis of the cult; 129 --; Temple and cult; 132 --; Physical temple; 134 --; Cultic personnel; 135 --; Financial support for the temple; 137 --; Cultic rituals; 138 --; Women and the cult; 140 --; Cultic year: sabbath and annual festivals; 141 --; Music and singing; 143 --; High priest and "the Sanhedrin"; 144 --; 8; Scripture, prayer, and synagogue; 150 --; Scribes and literacy; 150 --; Scripture and canon; 152 --; Main texts; 153 --; Conclusions about canonization; 156 --; Development of the text; 158 --; Summary about textual developments; 164 --; Scriptural interpretation; 165 --; Conclusions about scriptural interpretation; 169 --; Prayer and the rise of the synagogue; 170 --; "Popular religion"; 175 --; 9; Sects and movements; 183 --; Beginnings of sectarianism; 183 --; Sadducees and Pharisees; 185 --; Josephus; 187 --; New Testament; 192 --; Rabbinic literature; 194 --; 4QMMT and the Temple Scroll (11QT); 196 --; Essenes; 199 --; Question of Qumran; 201 --; Some tentative conclusions; 205 --; Other sects and groups; 206 --; Synthesis; 206 --; 10; Concepts of the Deity and the spirit world; 210 --; Developing views about God; 210 --; Ancient Israel; 212 --; Innovations during the Second Temple period; 215 --; Question of monotheism; 216 --; Spirit world; 219 --; Main texts; 220 --; Summary on angelic beings; 224 --; Figure of Wisdom and the Logos; 225 --; Main texts; 225 --; Summary of the figure of Wisdom; 227 --; Logos tradition; 228 --; 11; Prophecy, apocalypticism, the esoteric arts, and predicting the future; 232 --; Problems of definition; 232 --; Did prophecy cease in the Second Temple period?; 236 --; Main texts; 237 --; Esoteric arts and their use; 241 --; Astrology; 241 --; Dreams; 243 --; Textualg interpretation; 245 --; Chronography; 246 --; Magic, mysticism, and controlling the spirits; 248 --; Prophetic and charismatic individuals; 251 --; Synthesis; 254 --; 12; Eschatologies and ideas of salvation; 257 --; Main texts; 257 --; Personal eschatology: ideas about life after death; 267 --; Heavens and hells; 268 --; Cosmic eschatology: expectations about the end of the world; 269 --; 13; Messiahs; 271 --; Main texts; 271 --; Hebrew Bible; 271 --; Ben Sira; 273 --; Qumran scrolls; 273 --; Psalms of Solomon; 276 --; Similitudes of Enoch (1 Enoch 37-71); 276 --; Philo; 276 --; Josephus; 278 --; 4 Ezra/2 Baruch; 279 --; Sibylline Oracles; 280 --; New Testament; 280 --; Rabbinic literature; 281 --; "Son of Man"; 282 --; Sicarii, Zealots, and other "revolutionary" groups; 283 --; "Fourth Philosophy" and the Sicarii; 285 --; Zealots; 287 --; Synthesis; 288 --; 14; Jews and Judaism in the Hellenistic world; 292 --; How they saw themselves; 292 --; Jewish identity and conversion; 292 --; Ideology of the land and the concept of exile; 297 --; Gender and sexuality; 300 --; How others saw them; 305 --; Philo-Judaism and anti-Judaism; 305 --; Religious tolerance; 308 --; Synthesis; 310 --; 15; Judaism in the Second Temple period: a holistic perspective; 315 N2 - This text focuses on a holistic interpretation of the Second Temple period (c.550 BC - 100 AD) and its importance for the nature of Jewish religion in later centuries. 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