Research Catalog

Title

Bridge between the Testaments : a reappraisal of Judaism from the Exile to the birth of Christianity / by Donald E. Gowan.

Author

Gowan, Donald E.

Publication

Pittsburgh : Pickwick Press, 1976.

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Description

xx, 514 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Pittsburgh theological monograph series ; 14

Uniform Title

Pittsburgh theological monograph series 14.

Subject

• 586 B.C.-210 A.D
• Geschichte 586 v. Chr.-70
• Jews > History > 586 B.C.-70 A.D
• Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The heritage -- History: The experience of exile -- shock and survival -- The restoration to Palestine -- The end of Persian rule and the coming of the Greeks -- Judea under the Ptolemies and Seleucids -- The Maccabean revolt -- Self rule: The Hasmonean dynasty -- The Romans -- The diaspora -- Diversity of lifestyles: The Samaritans -- The Sadducees -- The Pharisees -- The Zealots and the Sicarii. The fourth philosophy -- The Essenes and the Dead Sea scrolls -- Instututions: Home and family -- Religion -- Government -- Education -- Literature: The Septuagint -- The formation of the Old Testament canon -- The Aporcrypha and the Pseudepigrapha -- Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash and Targum -- Theological strata: Wisdom -- Torah -- Apocalyptic -- New beliefes: Resurrection and Messiah

ISBN

0915138190 :

LCCN

^^^76049996^

OCLC

2593881

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library