Beginnings of Judaism

Compilation by Isaiah M. Gafni

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  1. 1.
    The Beginnings of Judaism — Biblical Roots
  2. 2.
    New Challenges in the Late Biblical Period
  3. 3.
    Jews Under Persian Rule — The Return to Zion
  4. 4.
    The Challenge of Hellenism
  5. 5.
    The Maccabees — From Rebels to Kings
  6. 6.
    The Canonization of the Hebrew Bible
  7. 7.
    Translating the Bible — The Septuagint
  8. 8.
    Adding to the Bible — The Apocrypha
  9. 9.
    Tobit — a New Path of Righteousness
  10. 10.
    Retelling the Bible — The Book of Jubilees
  11. 11.
    Revealing the Unknown
  12. 12.
    "Judaism" or "Judaisms"?
  13. 13.
    Sectarianism — Pharisees and Sadducees
  14. 14.
    Out of the Caves — Discovery at Qumran
  15. 15.
    The End of Days — Messianic Eschatology
  16. 16.
    Other Lands, Other Jews — The Diaspora
  17. 17.
    Judaism in the Hellenistic World
  18. 18.
    Changing God's Address — Temple to Synagogue
  19. 19.
    Rome Arrives in Jerusalem
  20. 20.
    Parting With the Temple
  21. 21.
    From Jerusalem to Yavne — Rabbinic Judaism
  22. 22.
    The Shaping of Rabbinic Judaism
  23. 23.
    A Violent Epilogue — Bar Kokhba
  24. 24.
    From "Roots" to "Tree"

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