Full Description
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 of the Maccabaean revolt to Hasmonean rule and Herod the Great. Based directly on primary sources, the study addresses aspects such as Jewish literary sources, economy, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Diaspora, causes of the Maccabaen revolt, and the beginning and end of the Hasmonean kingdom and the reign of Herod the Great. Discussed in the context of the wider Hellenistic world and its history, and with an extensive up-to-date secondary bibliography, this volume is an invaluable addition to Lester Grabbe's in-depth study of the history of Judaism.
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part II: Sources
Chapter 2: Archaeology, Including Coins and Inscriptions
Chapter 3: Jewish Literature
Chapter 4: Greek and Latin Sources
Part III: Society and Institutions
Chapter 5: Economics
Chapter 6: Sects and Movements
Chapter 7: Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Chapter 8: The Samaritans: From Sanballat to Vespasian
Chapter 9: The Idumaeans, Arabs and Parthians
Chapter 10: The Diaspora: Jewish Communities Outside Judah from Alexander to Herod (330 BCE to 4 CE)
Chapter 11: Causes of the Maccabaean Revolt
Chapter 12: Religion : Temple, Scripture, Belief and Practice
Part IV: Historical Synthesis
Chapter 13: Background: The Ptolemies, the Seleucids, and the Romans
Chapter 14: Events Preceding the Maccabaean Revolt (175-168 BCE): A New Constitution for Jerusalem
Chapter 15: The Maccabean Revolt To the Death of Judas (170-161 BCE)
Chapter 16: The Hasmonaean Kingdom: From Jonathan to Alexandra Salome (161 to 67 BCE)
Chapter 17: End of the Hasmonaean Kingdom and the Beginning of Roman Domination (67-40 BCE)
Chapter 18: The Reign of Herod the Great (40-4 BCE)
Part V: Conclusions
Chapter 19: Judaism From Onias III to Herod the Great—A Holistic Perspective
Bibliography
Index of References
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects
