The Cambridge History of Judaism Volume 4 The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period

1. Political, social, and economic life in the Land of Israel
2. The Diaspora from 66 to c. 235 CE
3. The uprisings in the Jewish Diaspora, 116–117
4. The Bar Kochba Revolt, 132–135
5. The legal status of the Jews in the Roman Empire
6. Jewish art and architecture in the Land of Israel, 70–c. 235
7. The destruction of the Jerusalem Temple: its meaning and its consequences
8. The origins and development of the rabbinic movement in the Land of Israel
9. The canonical process
10. The beginnings of Christian anti-Judaism, 70–c. 235
11. The rabbinic response to Christianity
12. The Mishnah
13. The Tosefta
14. Midrash Halachah
15. Mishnaic Hebrew: an introductory survey
16. The political and social history of the Jewish community in the Land of Israel, c. 235–638
17. The material realities of Jewish life in the Land of Israel, c. 235–638
18. Aramaic in late antiquity
19. The Diaspora, c. 235–638
20. Jewish archaeology in late antiquity: art, architecture, and inscriptions
21. Jewish festivals in late antiquity
22. Rabbinic prayer in late antiquity
23. Rabbinic views on marriage, sexuality, and the family
24. Women in Jewish life and law
25. Gentiles in rabbinic thought
26. The formation and character of the Jerusalem Talmud
27. The late midrashic, paytanic, and targumic literature
28. Jewish magic in late antiquity
29. Jewish folk literature in late antiquit
30. Early forms of Jewish mysticism
31. The political, social, and economic history of Babylonian Jewry, 224–638 CE
32. The history of the Babylonian academies
33. The formation and character of the Babylonian Talmud
34. Talmudic law: a jurisprudential perspective
35. Torah in rabbinic thought: the theology of learning
36. Man, sin, and redemption in rabbinic Judaism
37. The rabbinic theology of the physical: blessings, body and soul, resurrection, and covenant and election
38. Christian anti-Judaism: polemics and policies
39. Jews in Byzantium
40. Messianism and apocalypticism in rabbinic texts

This fourth volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism covers the period from 70 CE to 640 CE (the rise of Islam). It deals with the major historical, political and cultural developments in Jewish history and the history of Judaism in this crucial era during which Judaism took on its classical shape. It provides discussion and analysis of all the essential subjects pertinent to an understanding of this period, and is especially strong in its coverage of the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections. In addition, it surveys the early encounter of Judaism and Christianity from both the Jewish and Christian sides and describes the rise of Jewish mystical literature, the liturgical literature of the developing synagogue, the nature of magical practices in classical Judaism and Jewish Folklore.