Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-386) and indexes
Religion - 3 -- - Judaic - 5 -- - Second Temple period - 5 -- - Apologia pro historia mea - 6 -- - Some technical matters - 9 -- - Part I - Chronological survey - 11 -- - 2 - Persian period (539-333 BCE) - 13 -- - Major sources - 13 -- - Books of Ezra and Nehemiah - 13 -- - Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi - 15 -- - Joel - 17 -- - Jonah - 17 -- - Isaiah 56-66 - 18 -- - Books of Chronicles - 19 -- - Proverbs - 21 -- - Job - 22 -- - Esther - 23 -- - Ruth - 25 -- - Song of Songs - 25 -- - P Document - 26 -- - Archaeology, papyri, and coins - 28 -- - Synthesis - 29 -- - 3 - Early Greek period (333-200 BCE) - 37 -- - Hecateus of Abdera - 37 -- - Zenon papyri - 39 -- - Story of the Tobiads - 40 -- - Ethiopic Enoch (1 Enoch) and the Book of Giants - 41 -- - Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) - 42 -- - Tobit - 44 -- - Edicts of Antiochus III - 46 -- - Demetrius the Chronographer - 48 -- - Septuagint translation of the Bible - 49 -- - Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) - 50 -- - Synthesis - 52 -- - 4
- Later Greek period and Hasmoneans (200-63 BCE) - 59 -- - Major sources - 59 -- - 1 and 2 Maccabees - 59 -- - Daniel - 60 -- - 1 Enoch 83-105 - 62 -- - Book of Jubilees - 63 -- - Sibylline Oracles 3-5 - 64 -- - Judith - 65 -- - 1 Baruch - 66 -- - Qumran scrolls - 67 -- - Fragmentary Jewish Writers in Greek - 70 -- - Pseudo-Hecateus - 73 -- - Testament of Moses (Assumption of Moses) - 74 -- - Letter of (Pseudo- ) Aristeas - 75 -- - Synthesis - 76 -- - 5 - Under Roman rule (63 BCE-70 CE) - 84 -- - Major sources - 84 -- - Psalms of Solomon - 84 -- - 3 Maccabees - 86 -- - Wisdom of Solomon - 86 -- - Pseudo-Phocylides - 88 -- - Philo of Alexandria - 89 -- - Josephus - 92 -- - Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum (Pseudo-Philo) - 94 -- - Adam and Eve literature - 95 -- - Similitudes (Parables) of Enoch (1 Enoch 37-71) - 97 -- - Sibylline Oracles - 97 -- - Slavonic Enoch (2 Enoch) - 98 -- - 4 Maccabees - 99 -- - Testament of Moses - 100 -- - Testament of Abraham - 100 --
- Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs - 101 -- - Testament of Job - 104 -- - Joseph and Asenath - 105 -- - Judean Desert manuscripts, inscriptions, and archaeology - 106 -- - 6 - Transition to rabbinic Judaism: Yavneh - 116 -- - Major sources - 116 -- - Rabbinic literature - 116 -- - Apocalypses of Ezra, Baruch, Abraham, and John - 117 -- - Sibylline Oracles - 120 -- - Reconstruction at Yavneh - 120 -- - 7 - Temple and priesthood - 129 -- - Theological basis of the cult - 129 -- - Temple and cult - 132 -- - Physical temple - 134 -- - Cultic personnel - 135 -- - Financial support for the temple - 137 -- - Cultic rituals - 138 -- - Women and the cult - 140 -- - Cultic year: sabbath and annual festivals - 141 -- - Music and singing - 143 -- - High priest and "the Sanhedrin" - 144 -- - 8 - Scripture, prayer, and synagogue - 150 -- - Scribes and literacy - 150 -- - Scripture and canon - 152 -- - Main texts - 153 -- - Conclusions about canonization - 156 -- - Development of the text
- 158 -- - Summary about textual developments - 164 -- - Scriptural interpretation - 165 -- - Conclusions about scriptural interpretation - 169 -- - Prayer and the rise of the synagogue - 170 -- - "Popular religion" - 175 -- - 9 - Sects and movements - 183 -- - Beginnings of sectarianism - 183 -- - Sadducees and Pharisees - 185 -- - Josephus - 187 -- - New Testament - 192 -- - Rabbinic literature - 194 -- - 4QMMT and the Temple Scroll (11QT) - 196 -- - Essenes - 199 -- - Question of Qumran - 201 -- - Some tentative conclusions - 205 -- - Other sects and groups - 206 -- - Synthesis - 206 -- - 10 - Concepts of the Deity and the spirit world - 210 -- - Developing views about God - 210 -- - Ancient Israel - 212 -- - Innovations during the Second Temple period - 215 -- - Question of monotheism - 216 -- - Spirit world - 219 -- - Main texts - 220 -- - Summary on angelic beings - 224 -- - Figure of Wisdom and the Logos - 225 -- - Main texts - 225 -- - Summary of the figure of Wisdom - 227 --
- Logos tradition - 228 -- - 11 - Prophecy, apocalypticism, the esoteric arts, and predicting the future - 232 -- - Problems of definition - 232 -- - Did prophecy cease in the Second Temple period? - 236 -- - Main texts - 237 -- - Esoteric arts and their use - 241 -- - Astrology - 241 -- - Dreams - 243 -- - Textualg interpretation - 245 -- - Chronography - 246 -- - Magic, mysticism, and controlling the spirits - 248 -- - Prophetic and charismatic individuals - 251 -- - Synthesis - 254 -- - 12 - Eschatologies and ideas of salvation - 257 -- - Main texts - 257 -- - Personal eschatology: ideas about life after death - 267 -- - Heavens and hells - 268 -- - Cosmic eschatology: expectations about the end of the world - 269 -- - 13 - Messiahs - 271 -- - Main texts - 271 -- - Hebrew Bible - 271 -- - Ben Sira - 273 -- - Qumran scrolls - 273 -- - Psalms of Solomon - 276 -- - Similitudes of Enoch (1 Enoch 37-71) - 276 -- - Philo - 276 -- - Josephus - 278 -- - 4 Ezra/2 Baruch - 279 --
- Sibylline Oracles - 280 -- - New Testament - 280 -- - Rabbinic literature - 281 -- - "Son of Man" - 282 -- - Sicarii, Zealots, and other "revolutionary" groups - 283 -- - "Fourth Philosophy" and the Sicarii - 285 -- - Zealots - 287 -- - Synthesis - 288 -- - 14 - Jews and Judaism in the Hellenistic world - 292 -- - How they saw themselves - 292 -- - Jewish identity and conversion - 292 -- - Ideology of the land and the concept of exile - 297 -- - Gender and sexuality - 300 -- - How others saw them - 305 -- - Philo-Judaism and anti-Judaism - 305 -- - Religious tolerance - 308 -- - Synthesis - 310 -- - 15 - Judaism in the Second Temple period: a holistic perspective - 315
This text focuses on a holistic interpretation of the Second Temple period (c.550 BC - 100 AD) and its importance for the nature of Jewish religion in later centuries. Topics examined include views on God, the temple and priesthood and messianism
