From Joshua to Caiaphas: High Priests after the Exile

Name: From Joshua to Caiaphas: High Priests after the Exile
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ISBN: 9780800626174

By: James C. VanderKam

Fortress Press / 2004 / Hardcover

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Beginning late in the Old Testament period and continuing for the next six hundred years, the Jewish high priests were often the most important members of Jewish society. They not only possessed religious authority but also exercised political control. From Joshua to Caiaphas gathers and assesses the surviving evidence about each of the fifty-one men who served as high priest from about 515 BCE until approximately 70 CE when the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed.

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Title: From Joshua to Caiaphas: High Priests after the Exile
By: James C. VanderKam
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 400
Vendor: Fortress Press
Publication Date: 2004

Dimensions: 9 X 6 (inches)
Weight: 2 pounds 2 ounces
ISBN: 0800626176
ISBN-13: 9780800626174
Stock No: WW626176

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Beginning late in the Old Testament period and continuing for the next six hundred years, the Jewish high priests were often the most important members of Jewish society. They not only possessed religious authority but also exercised political control. This book gathers and assesses the surviving evidence about each of the fifty-one men who served as high priest from about 515 BCE until approximately 70 CE when the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed.

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James C. VanderKam is John A. O'Brien Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at the University of Notre Dame. He has edited thirteen volumes in the series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert and is a member of the editorial committee for the remaining unpublished Dead Sea scrolls. He is one of the two editors in chief of the Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2000) and author of the prize-winning The Dead Sea Scrolls Today (1994), From Revelation to Canon: Studies in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Literature (2000), An Introduction to Early Judaism (2001), The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2002), and From Joshua to Caiaphas: High Priests after the Exile (Fortress, 2004). Prof. VanderKam is the former editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature.