From the Maccabees to the Mishnah /

Cohen, Shaye J. D

From the Maccabees to the Mishnah / - 1st ed - Philadelphia : Westminster Press, ©1987 - 251 pages ; 24 cm - Library of early Christianity ; 7 . - Library of early Christianity ; 7 .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index

Ancient Judaism : chronology and definitions -- Jews and Gentiles -- The Jewish "religion" : practices and beliefs -- The community and its institutions -- Sectarian and normative -- Canonization and its implications -- The emergence of rabbinic Judaism

WJC Memorial to Clarence Pennington class of 1933

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

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Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
Jews--History--168 B.C.-135 A.D

BM176 / .C615 1987

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