by hadassah | Apr 8, 2008 | Literature of the Second Commonwealth
Greco-Roman Period 4When the Israelites living in Judea heard of everything that Holofernes, the general of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Assyrians, had done to the nations, and how he had plundered and destroyed all their temples, 2 they were therefore greatly...
by hadassah | Apr 8, 2008 | Literature of the Second Commonwealth
Greco-Roman Period The book of Jubilees purports to project those things revealed to Moses during the forty days he spent on Mount Sinai (Ex. 24-18). It opens with God’s revealing to Moses the future of the Jewish people. In the persona of an angel recounting Jewish...
by hadassah | Apr 8, 2008 | Greco-Roman Period, Literature of the Second Commonwealth
Greco-Roman Period Lawrence H. Schiffman, From Text to Tradition, Ktav Publishing House, Hoboken, NJ, 1991. All in all, the apocrypha are a varied group of texts that have in common little more than their approximate dates of composition and their preservation in the...
by hadassah | Apr 8, 2008 | Literature of the Second Commonwealth
From Text to Tradition The Apocrypha Pseudepigrapha Historical surveys Shaye Cohen. “Roman Domination- The Jewish Revolt and the Destruction of the Second Temple.” Primary sources Book of Tobit 11-12- The Reward of the Righteous Book of Judith 4-16- The Pious...
