Enochic Judaism

David R Jackson

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 49
• From the Books of Enoch, Jackson identifies a paradigm of order as opposed to deviation, which defined orthodoxy and elect identity in a manner which ... Lees meer

Tendentious Hagiographies

Michael Chyutin

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 77
• Tendentious Historiographies surveys ten Jewish literary works composed in Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek between the 8th and the mid-2nd century BCE, and ... Lees meer

Themes and Texts, Exodus and Beyond

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies
• This volume of essays is focused on the significance of the book of Exodus for studies in the Septuagint, Second Temple Jewish literature, the New Tes... Lees meer

Tendentious Hagiographies

Michael Chyutin

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 77
• Tendentious Historiographies surveys ten Jewish literary works composed in Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek between the 8th and the mid-2nd century BCE, and ... Lees meer

4q Pesher Nahum

Gregory Doudna

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 35
• 4Q Pesher Nahum has long been considered one of the most important Qumran texts for understanding the historical context of the Scrolls. Doudna's comp... Lees meer

A Bibliography of Pseudepigrapha Research 1850-1999

Lorenzo Ditommaso

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 39
• This comprehensive bibliography of research on the Pseudepigrapha and cognate literature covers the period from 1850 to the present day - thus encompa... Lees meer

Whole Truth: Rethinking Retribution in the Book of Tobit, Th

Micah D Kiel

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 82
• Micah Kiel discusses the overly simplistic nomenclature ('Deuteronomistic') given to Tobit's perspective on retribution and attempts to show, by coord... Lees meer

New Directions in Qumran Studies

William John Lyons, Jonathan G Campbell, Lloyd Keith Pietersen

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 52
• Fifty years after the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls there have been many advances in the field of Qumran Studies. Yet much work remains undone. In... Lees meer

The Concept of the Messiah in the Scriptures of Judaism and Christianity

Shirley Lucass

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 78
• For 2000 years Judaism and Christianity have been at odds with one another. The problem at the heart of the division is the concept of messiah. Shirle... Lees meer

Judah Between East and West

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 75
• A collection of essays by leading scholars, this volume examines the period of transition between Persian and Greek rule of Judah, ca. 400-200 BCE. Lees meer

A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, Volume 2

Lester L Grabbe

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 68
• This is the second volume of the projected four-volume history of the Second Temple period. It is axiomatic that there are large gaps in the history o... Lees meer

A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period (Vol. 1)

Lester L Grabbe

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 47
• In the first of four volumes on A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, Lester Grabbe presents a comprehensive history of Yehud... Lees meer

A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, Volume 3

Lester L Grabbe

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 95
• This is the third volume of the projected four-volume history of the Second Temple period, collecting all that is known about the Jews from the period... Lees meer

A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, Volume 4

Lester L Grabbe

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 99
• This is the fourth and fi nal volume of Lester L. Grabbe's four-volume history of the Second Temple period, collecting all that is known about the Jew... Lees meer

The Body in Biblical, Christian and Jewish Texts

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 85
• The body is an entity on which religious ideology is printed. Thus it is frequently a subject of interest, anxiety, prescription and regulation in bot... Lees meer

The Serekh Texts

Sarianna Metso

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 62
• The Serekh Texts discusses the central rule documents produced by a pious Jewish community of the Essenes that lived at Qumran by the Dead Sea at the ... Lees meer

Negotiating Diaspora

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 45
• The study of the ancient Jewish Diaspora is developing in exciting new directions as a result of fresh archaeological material and new frameworks of i... Lees meer

Land, Center and Diaspora

Isaiah Gafni

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 21
• The unique duality of Jewish existence, wherein a major Jewish centre in the Land of Israel flourished alongside a large and prosperous diaspora, was ... Lees meer

Vulnerability and Valour

Jessica M Keady

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies
• Jessica M. Keady uses insights from social science and gender theory to shed light on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the community at Qumran. Through her an... Lees meer

This World and the World to Come

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 74
• Did authors of Second Temple texts concern themselves with 'salvation'? If so, on what terms? What does one need 'salvation' from? Are the parameters ... Lees meer

A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, Volume 2

Lester L Grabbe

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 68
• This is the second volume of the projected four-volume history of the Second Temple period. It is axiomatic that there are large gaps in the history o... Lees meer

Architecture and Utopia in the Temple Era

Michael Chyutin

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 58
• This book proposes a new reconstruction of the Temple, which differs from conventional descriptions in Jewish literary sources during the First and Se... Lees meer

Jewish Local Patriotism and Self-Identification in the Graeco-Roman Period

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 31
• This volume of essays explores the broad theme of the relationship between Jewish identity and patriotism in the period between the destruction of the... Lees meer

Visions and Eschatology

Antonios Finitsis

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Second Temple Studies | nr. 79
• Zechariah 1-6 is unlike most of the prophets in the Hebrew Bible. He is pro-establishment and he conveys his message mostly with visions. These observ... Lees meer