Early Judaism: Text and Documents on Faith and Piety, Revised Edition

Name: Early Judaism: Text and Documents on Faith and Piety, Revised Edition
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ISBN: 9780800662868

Edited By: Michael E. Stone, George W.E. Nickelsburg

By: Edited by George W.E. Nickelsburg & Michael E. Stone

Fortress Press / 2009 / Paperback

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* Thoroughly updated! Offering rich insight into the formative Second Temple period, Nickelsburg and Stone include new texts from Qumran and other documents that highlight Jewish sects, temple worship, ideals of piety and conduct, expectations of deliverance, judgment, vindication, the figure of Lady Wisdom in relation to Israel, and more. A brilliantly organized synthesis! 256 pages, softcover from Fortress.

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Title: Early Judaism: Text and Documents on Faith and Piety, Revised Edition
By: Edited by George W.E. Nickelsburg & Michael E. Stone
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 256
Vendor: Fortress Press
Publication Date: 2009

Dimensions: 9 X 6 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound
ISBN: 0800662865
ISBN-13: 9780800662868
Stock No: WW662868

Publisher's Description

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Jewish writings from the period of Second Temple present a rich and potentially overwhelming variety of first-hand materials. George W. E. Nickelsburg and Michael E. Stone, experts on this formative period, have updated their classic sourcebook on Jewish beliefs and practices to take into account current thinking about the sources and to include new documents, including texts from Qumran not available in the first edition, in a brilliantly organized synthesis.

Included are chapters on Jewish sects and parties, the Temple and worship in it, ideals of piety and conduct, expectations concerning deliverance, judgment, and vindication, different conceptions of the agents of God's activity, and the figure of Lady Wisdom in relationship to Israel.

Author Bio

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Michael E. Stone is professor of Armenian studies and Gail Levin de Nur Professor of Religious Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the author of numerous books and scholarly articles in biblical, early Jewish, and Armenian studies. He is the editor of Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period (Fortress and van Gorcum, 1984), the author of 4 Ezra (Hermeneia; Fortress, 1990), and with George W. E. Nickelsburg, coeditor of Early Judaism: Texts and Documents on Faith and Piety, rev. ed. (Fortress, 2009).

George W. E. Nickelsburgis Emeritus Professor of Religion at the University of Iowa, where he taught for more than three decades. He is the author of seventy articles and several hundred dictionary and encyclopedia entries. Among his many works are Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters (co-editor; 1986), Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah, 2nd ed. (Fortress Press, 2005), and Early Judaism: Texts and Documents on Faith and Piety, Revised Edition (co-editor; Fortress Press, 2009).