Understanding Second Temple and rabbinic Judaism
Describes the Second Temple period (the first few centuries before and after the common era) and its influence on the development of Rabbinic Judaism, which is the foundation for all of modern Judaism
Print Book, English, 2003
Ktav Publishing House, Jersey City, N.J., 2003
History
xviii, 409 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
9780881258134, 088125813X
52749982
The Biblical heritage
Judaism in the Persian period
The Hellenistic Age
Judaism in the Hellenistic Diaspora
Sectarianism in the Second Commonwealth
Apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, and the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Jewish-Christian schism
Revolt
Restoration
Mishnah: the new scripture
Formative Judaism comes of age
The sea of the Talmud
Epilogue: the triumph of the Babylonian Talmud