Understanding Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism

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KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 2003 - 409 pages
Describes the Second Temple period (the first few centuries before and after the common era) and its influence on the development of Rabbinic Judaism, which is the foundation for all of modern Judaism.

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Contents

The Biblical Heritage
15
20
36
Judaism in the Persian Period
39
24
67
The Hellenistic Age
74
Judaism in the Hellenistic Diaspora
117
Sectarianism in the Second Commonwealth
150
Apocrypha Pseudepigrapha
197
Revolt
254
Restoration
270
The New Scripture
292
Formative Judaism Comes of Age
327
The Sea of the Talmud
356
The Triumph of the Babylonian Talmud
378
Suggestions for Further Reading and Bibliography
392
Index
400

The JewishChristian Schism
224

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