The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ: Volume 1

by Emil Schürer, Fergus Millar, Geza Vermes

Overview

Critical presentation of the whole evidence concerning Jewish history, institutions, and literature from 175 BC to AD 135; with updated bibliographies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567022424
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/14/2000
Series:	History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.38(d)

About the Author

Emil Schurer (1844 - 1910) was a German Protestant theologian. He lectured at Leipzig, Giessen, Kiel, and Göttingen and founded and edited the journal Theologische Literaturzeitung. He devoted most of his scholarly life to the creation of his magisterial work on the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ.

Geza Vermes, F.B.A., was Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford UK, and Director of the Forum of Qumran Research at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UK.

Fergus Millar, F.B.A., is Emeritus Camden Professor of Ancient History in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford, UK.

Matthew Black, F.B.A., was Emeritus Professor of Biblical Criticism, and former Principal of St. Mary's College at the University of St. Andrews, UK.

Pamela Vermes was former Literary Editor of the Journal of Jewish Studies, Oxford, UK.

Table of Contents

: Introduction : 1. Scope and Purpose of the Work : 2. Auxiliary Sciences : 3. The Sources- The First Period : 4. Religious Crisis and Revolution 175-164 B.C. : 5. Judas Maccabaeus 164-161 B.C. : 6. Jonathan 161-143(2) B.C : 7. Simon 143(2)-135(4) B.C. : 8. John Hyrcanus I 135(4)-104 b.c. : 9. Aristobulus I 104-103 B.C. : 10. Alexander Jannaeus 103-76 B.C. : 11. Alexandra 76-67 B.C. : 12. Aristobulus II 67-63 B.C. : The Second Period : 13. Hyrcanus II 63-40 B.C.; the rise of Antipater and his Sons Phasael and Herod : 14. Antigonus 40-37 B.C. : 15. Herod the Great37-4 B.C. : 16. Disturbances after Herod's Death 4 B.C. : 17. From the Death of Herod the Great to Agrippa I 4 B.C.-A.D. 41. : 18. Agrippa I A.D. 37, 40, 41-44. : 19. The Roman Procurators A.D 44-66 : 20. The Great War with Rome A.D. 66-74 : 21. From the Destruction of Jerusalmen to the Downfall of Bar Kokhba/Appendices

Editorial Reviews

"...a first-rate textbook on the intertestamental period." Menahem Stern, Journal of Jewish Studies
The Classical Review

The appearance of Vol. I of the new Schürer is of such significance that it is not exceeded in importance by any recent publication and approached by very few. Schürer is the handbook par excellence for scholars, who are now in greatest debt to the editors for a labor of devotion and an achievement of sheer excellence...It is impossible to overpraise this volume.
Catholic Biblical Quarterly

The obsolete has been excised from text, notes, and bibliographies, which have all been revised. And of course a quantity of wholly new material, unknown to Schürer, has had to be incorporated, such as archaeological finds, the Qumran and Bar Kokhba documents and the Babylonian tablets which have recently been throwing light on obscure areas of Seleucid (and Parthian) chronology...All that was best in the original has been preserved: notably its depth of learning, laudable succinctness, and remarkable clarity of organization.
The Classical World

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