Research Catalog

Title

Beginnings of Judaism / Isaiah M. Gafni.

Author

Gafni, Isaiah.

Publication

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2008.

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Description

2 v.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Great courses. Religion

Uniform Title

Great courses (DVD). Religion.

Subject

• Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Jews > History > 70-638
• Jews > History > To 70 A.D
• Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
• Judaism > History > To 70 A.D
• Judaism > History
• Jewish fundamentalism

Note

• "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Lecture 1. The beginnings of Judaism--Biblical roots -- Lecture 2. New challenges in the late biblical period -- Lecture 3. Jews under Persian rule--The return to Zion -- Lecture 4. The challenge of Hellenism -- Lecture 5. The Maccabees-- From rebels to kings -- Lecture 6. The canonization of the Hebrew Bible -- Lecture 7. Translating the Bible--The Septuagint -- Lecture 8. Adding to the Bible--The Apocrypha -- Lecture 9. Tobit--A new path of righteousness -- Lecture 10. Retelling the Bible--The book of Jubilees -- Lecture 11. Revealing the unknown -- Lecture 12. "Judaism" or "Judaisms"? -- Lecture 13. Sectarianism--Pharisees and Sadducees -- Lecture 14. Out of the caves--Discovery at Qumran -- Lecture 15. The End of Days--Messianic eschatology -- Lecture 16. Other lands, other Jews--The Diaspora -- Lecture 17. Judaism in the Hellenistic world -- Lecture 18. Changing God's address--Temple to synagogue -- Lecture 19. Rome arrives in Jerusalem -- Lecture 20. Parting with the temple -- Lecture 21. From Jerusalem to Yavne--Rabbinic Judaism -- Lecture 22. The shaping of Rabbinic Judaism -- Lecture 23. A violent epilogue--Bar Kokhba -- Lecture 24. From "Roots" to "Tree."

OCLC

660610018

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library