Research Catalog

Title

From the Maccabees to the Mishnah / Shaye J. D. Cohen.

Author

Cohen, Shaye J. D.

Publication

Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, [2014]

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Details

Description

xvi, 300 pages; 23 cm

Summary

This is the third edition of Shaye J. D. Cohen's important and seminal work on the history and development of Judaism between 164 BCE to 300 CE. Cohen's synthesis of religion, literature, and history offers deep insight into the nature of Judaism at this key period, including the relationship between Jews and Gentiles, the function of Jewish religion in the larger community, and the development of normative Judaism and other Jewish sects. Cohen offers students more than just history, but an understanding of the social and cultural context of Judaism as it developed into the formative period of rabbinic Judaism. This new edition includes a brand-new chapter on the parting of ways between Jews and Christians in the second century CE. From the Maccabees to the Mishnah remains the clearest introduction to the era that shaped Judaism and provided the context for early Christianity. (Publisher).

Subjects

• 586 B.C.-210 A.D
• History
• Jews > History > 168 B.C.-135 A.D
• Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ancient Judaism : chronology and definitions -- Jews and Gentiles -- The Jewish "religion" : practices and beliefs -- The community and its institutions -- Sectarian and normative -- Canonization and its implications -- The emergence of rabbinic Judaism -- Ways that parted : Jews, Christians, Jewish Christians (ca. 100-150).

ISBN

• 9780664239046
• 0664239048
• 9780664219116 (canceled/invalid)
• 066421911X (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014029380

OCLC

• 884882479
• SCSB-12717149

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library