by hadassah | Apr 8, 2008 | Culture and Religion in Hellenistic Israel
Excerpted from Lawrence H. Schiffman, From Text to Tradition, Ktav Publishing House, Hoboken, NJ, 1991. It is against the background just sketched that the phenomenon of religious sectarianism came to fruition. There had been divergences in Israelite religion even in...
by hadassah | Apr 8, 2008 | Culture and Religion in Hellenistic Israel
The Sadducees say- We complain against you, Pharisees, for you say that the Holy Scriptures defile the hands [that is, are holy], but the writings of Homer do not defile the hands –Mishnah Yadayim 4-6 “Jon Q. Judean,” the “average” Jew in the Hellenistic and early...
by hadassah | Apr 8, 2008 | Culture and Religion in Hellenistic Israel
Overview- Culture and Religion in Hellenistic Israel (circa 332 BCE-70 CE) Pharisees and Sadducees (332 BCE-c. 70 CE) Second Temple Sectarianism (332 BCE-c. 70 CE) Literature of the Second Commonwealth (332 BCE-c. 70 CE) The Significance of the Dead Sea...
