Texts and Traditions Source Book: A Source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism
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.
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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.
PrefaceAcknowledgments1Introduction12The Biblical Heritage73Judaism in the Persian Period654The Hellenistic Age1215Judaism in the Hellenistic Diaspora1716Sectarianism in the Second Commonwealth2317Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and the Dead Sea Scrolls3018The Jewish-Christian Schism3699Revolt and Restoration42910Mishnah: The New Scripture49711Formative Judaism Comes of Age56112The Sea of the Talmud61913The Life of Torah67114Epilogue: The Hegemony of the Babylonian Talmud749Bibliography763Index of Sources769
