Texts and Traditions: A Source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic JudaismLawrence H. Schiffman KTAV Publishing House, 1998 - 777 pages "An indispensible companion text, Texts and Traditions includes the essential documents of the various religious trends of the Second Temple and Rabbinic periods as well as Josephus, Greek and Aramaic inscriptions, classical historians and talmudic sources." --Book Jacket. |
Contents
Preface | xxi |
The Biblical Heritage | 7 |
Judaism in the Persian Period | 65 |
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