From the Maccabees to the Mishnah

Author: Shaye J. D. Cohen
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 0664227430
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
In this new edition of a best-selling classic, Shaye Cohen offers a thorough analysis of Judaism's development from the early years of the Roman Empire to the formative period of rabbinic Judaism. Cohen's synthesis of religion, literature, and history offers deep insight into the nature of Judaism at this key period, including the relationship between Jews and Gentiles, the function of Jewish religion in the larger community, and the development of normative Judaism and other Jewish sects. In addition, Cohen provides clear explanations concerning the formation of the biblical canon and the roots of rabbinic Judaism. Now completely updated and revised, this book remains the clearest introduction to the era that shaped Judaism and provided the context for early Christianity. The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the New Testament developed.

From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, Third Edition

Author: Shaye Cohen
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 1611645484
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
This is the third edition of Shaye J. D. Cohen's important and seminal work on the history and development of Judaism between 164 BCE to 300 CE. Cohen's synthesis of religion, literature, and history offers deep insight into the nature of Judaism at this key period, including the relationship between Jews and Gentiles, the function of Jewish religion in the larger community, and the development of normative Judaism and other Jewish sects. Cohen offers students more than just history, but an understanding of the social and cultural context of Judaism as it developed into the formative period of rabbinic Judaism. This new edition includes a brand-new chapter on the parting of ways between Jews and Christians in the second century CE. From the Maccabees to the Mishnah remains the clearest introduction to the era that shaped Judaism and provided the context for early Christianity.

From the Maccabees to the Mishnah

Author: Shaye J. D. Cohen
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664250171
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
This book explores the period from the 160s to 63 B.C.E., when the Maccabees ruled the Jews, up to the publication of the Mishnah in the second century C.E.

From the Maccabees to the Mishnah

Author: Shaye J. D. Cohen
Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN: 0664239048
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 318

The Oxford Annotated Mishnah

Author: Shaye J. D. Cohen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192647857
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic law and, one could say, of rabbinic Judaism itself. It is overwhelmingly technical and focused on matters of practice, custom, and law. The Oxford Annotated Mishnah is the first annotated translation of this work, making the text accessible to all. With explanations of all technical terms and expressions, The Oxford Annotated Mishnah brings together an expert group of translators and annotators to assemble a version of the Mishnah that requires no specialist knowledge.

Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?

Author: Shaye J. D. Cohen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520212509
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
"This book represents engaged scholarship at its very best. Cohen presents the vast range of texts at his command with brevity and wit. Elegantly written, this is a very stimulating book that is sure to provoke admiration, discussion, and controversy."—David Biale, author of Cultures of the Jews "A distinguished and wide-ranging work of scholarship. Cohen’s definitive discussion of the covenant of circumcision enhances our understanding of Jewish identity formation, women’s status in Judaism, Jewish-Christian polemic, and the impact of diverse cultural environments on the evolution of Jewish tradition."—Judith R. Baskin, author of Midrashic Women

The Maccabean Revolt

Author: Daniel J. Harrington
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 160899113X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 143

Book Description

Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism

Author: Hershel Shanks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
This book tells the story of the formation of classical Judaism and orthodox Christianity as parallel yet interlocking histories. Here, in a series of chapters written by leading scholars in this country and in Israel, the reader is offered a general account of how, during the first six centuries of the Common Era, Judaism and Christianity took the form we recognize today.

Learn Mishnah

Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: Behrman House, Inc
ISBN: 9780874413106
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
Introduces Mishnah, the oral law of Judaism received by Moses from God at Mount Sinai.

Backgrounds of Early Christianity

Author: Everett Ferguson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802822215
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676

Book Description
New to this expanded & updated edition are revisions of Ferguson's original material, updated bibliographies, & a fresh dicussion of first century social life, the Dead Sea Scrolls & much else.