An Introduction to Second Temple Judaism: History and Religion of the Jews in the Time of Nehemiah, the Maccabees, Hillel, and J

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An internationally respected expert on the Second Temple period provides a fully up-to-date introduction to this crucial area of Biblical Studies. This introduction, by a world leader in the field, provides the perfect guide to the Second Temple Period, its history, literature, and religious setting. Lester Grabbe magisterially guides the reader through the period providing a careful overview of the most studied sources, the history surrounding them and the various currents within Judaism at the time. This book will be a core text for courses on the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, as well as Qumran, Intertestamental Literature and Early Judaism.

Lester L. Grabbe is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull. He is founder and convenor of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology. A recent book is Ancient Israel:What Do We Know and How Do We Know it?

'The chapters on currents within Second Temple Judaism achieve the purpose of introducing non-specialists to this period of Jewish history. They help the reader to understand the varieties of Jewish experience within history contexts.'-Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology Concise, authoritative and well written introduction, based on Grabbe's earlier work An Introduction of First Century Judaism. -- J. van Oort * Vigiliae Christianae *