Book Details
Orange Code:95624
Paperback:481 pages
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1. The geography of Palestine and the Levant in relation to its history2. Numismatics3. Calendars and chronology4. The Persian empire and the political and social history of Palestine in the Persian period5. The archeology of Persian Palestine6. Hebrew and Aramaic in the Persian period7. The Jewish community in Palestine in the Persian period8. Prophecy and Psalms in the Persian period9. Wisdom literature in the Persian period10. Jewish religious life in the Persian period11. Persian religion in the Achemenid age12. Iranian influence on Judaism : first century B . C . E . to second century C.E.13. The Diaspora
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The first three volumes of The Cambridge History of Judaism cover the history of the Jews from the Exile in 587 BCE to the early Roman period extending into the third century CE. A comprehensive examination is made of all the relevant literary and archeological sources, and special attention is given to the interaction of Iranian, Semitic, Hellenistic and Roman cultures. The contributors include both Jewish and Gentile scholars from many countries, and this History thus helps to deliver the study of Jewish history and Christian origins from geographical and religious limitations, and contributes to a deeper understanding and a broader tolerance. This first volume opens with three introductory chapters to the work as a whole dealing with the geographical background, the chronology and the numismatic history of Judaism. The remainder of this volume concentrates on the Persian period, the two and a half centuries following the Babylonian Exile.
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