Middle Judaism: Jewish Thought, 300 B.C.E. to 200 C.E (repost)
Middle Judaism: Jewish Thought, 300 B.C.E. to 200 C.E
Publisher: Fortress Pr | ISBN 10: 0800624939 | 1991 | PDF | 256 pages | 12 MB
Publisher: Fortress Pr | ISBN 10: 0800624939 | 1991 | PDF | 256 pages | 12 MB
Gabriele Boccaccini, who teaches Oriental studies at the University of Turin in Italy, calls on scholars to study biblical and other books in the context of their larger historical and literary environment, even if it means violating canonical boundaries. With that call in mind, he here tries to write the beginnings of a history of Jewish thought from 300 B.C.E. to 200 C.E.—a period that he prefers to designate Middle Judaism because those five centuries stand as a historical midway point between the Hebrew Scriptures and later religious movements such as rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. Boccaccini sees these later movements as having grown from specific predecessors within the multifaceted period of Middle Judaism.