This is the third volume of the projected four-volume history of the Second Temple period, collecting all that is known about the Jews from the period of the Maccabaean revolt to Hasmonean rule and Herod the Great. Based directly on primary sources, the study addresses aspects such as Jewish literary sources, economy, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Diaspora, causes of the Maccabaen revolt, and the beginning and end of the Hasmonean kingdom and the reign of Herod the Great. Discussed in the context of the wider Hellenistic world and its history, and with an extensive up-to-date secondary bibliography, this volume is an invaluable addition to Lester Grabbe's in-depth study of the history of Judaism.
ISBN: | 9780567692948 |
Publication date: | 20th February 2020 |
Author: | Dr. Lester L. (University of Hull, UK) Grabbe |
Publisher: | T.& T.Clark Ltd an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 640 pages |
Series: | The Library of Second Temple Studies |
Genres: |
Christianity Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts Judaism |