A SEARCH FOR ORIGINS OF JUDAISM FROM JOSHUA TO THE MISHNAH pdf download

A Search for origins of JUDAISM From Joshua to the Mishnah

A SEARCH FOR ORIGINS OF JUDAISM FROM JOSHUA TO THE MISHNAH

• Cyrus and Darius  
• Nehemiah and Ezra  
• Alexander, Jerusalem and the Samaritans  
• From Alexander to Antiochus IV Epiphanes  
• Pharisees and Sadducees  
• Rabbinic Tradition and Galilee  
• Conclusion: Outline of a Method  
• Chapter  
• The Sabbath and war  
• The Sabbath and the City  
• Jerusalem or Babylon?  
• Rabbinic Sources: Holy War  
• Rabbinic Sources: The Sabbath and War  
• Conclusions  
• Chapter  
• The Sabbath in the Bible  
• The Sabbath: Full Moon or Saturday?  
• The Sabbath and the Decalogue  
• Seventh Day, Seventh Year  
• Closing Remarks  
• Chapter  
• The Samaritans and shechem  
• The Elusive Samaritans  

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• A Search for the Origins of Judaism

• Josephus and the Samaritans  
• Alexander and Gerizim  
• Alexander at Jerusalem  
• Antiochus IV and the ‘Sidonians’  
• Sidonians of Shechem  
• Conclusions  
• Chapter  
• ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THE SAMARITANS  
• Assyrian Colonists in Samaria  
• Aaron and Bethel  
• Shechem and Bethel  
• Samaritan Pentateuch  
• More on the Letter of Aristeas  
• Conclusion: Chronologies and Hypotheses  
• Excursus : Samaritan Chronicles  
• Chapter  
• The Maccabaean Crisis  
• A Many-Sided Conflict  
• Jerusalem: Autonomous City or Centre of the Jews?  
• Hellenization  
• Divisions in Jerusalem and Judaea  
• Mattathias and Judas