The return of the repressed : Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer and the Pseudepigrapha by Adelman, Rachel

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The Dead Sea scrolls at 60 : scholarly contributions of New York University faculty and alumni

Table of Contents: “…Sivertsev -- What is a scriptural text in the Second Temple period? : texts between their biblical past, their inner-biblical interpretation, their reception in Second Temple literature, and their textual witnesses / Mark S. …”
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From the rivers of Babylon to the highlands of Judah : collected studies on the Restoration period by Japhet, Sara

Table of Contents: “…The supposed common authorship of Chronicles and Ezra/Nehemiah investigated anew -- Conquest and settlement in Chronicles -- Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the background of the historical and religious tendencies of Ezra-Nehemiah : part 1 -- Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the background of the historical and religious tendencies of Ezra-Nehemiah : part 2 -- People and land in the Restoration period -- The historical reliability of Chronicles : the history of the problem and its place in biblical research -- Law and "the law" in Ezra-Nehemiah -- "History" and "literature" in the Persian period : the restoration of the Temple -- The relationship between Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah -- The Temple in the Restoration period : reality and ideology -- The Israelite legal and social reality as reflected in Chronicles : a case study -- Composition and chronology in the book of Ezra-Nehemiah -- The prohibition of the habitation of women : the Temple scroll's attitude toward sexual impurity and its biblical precedents -- The distribution of the priestly gifts according to a document of the Second Temple period -- Postexilic historiography : how and why? …”
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Society, the sacred, and scripture in ancient Judaism : a sociology of knowledge by Lightstone, Jack N.

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The Danielic discourse on empire in Second Temple literature by Frisch, Alexandria

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An Aramaic wisdom text from Qumran : a new interpretation of the Levi document by Drawnel, Henryk

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The Psalms of the Tamid service : a liturgical text from the Second Temple by Trudinger, Peter L., 1953-

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The Text of the Hebrew Bible and Its Editions : Studies in Celebration of the Fifth Centennial of the Complutensian Polyglot. by Piquer Otero, Andrés

Table of Contents: “…Traces of the Jewish Targum in the Second Temple Period, and Vice Versa (Joosten); ‎Chapter 8. …”
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Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch A Systematic and Comparative Approach. by Nihan, Christophe

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 10: The Ritual Texts of Leviticus and the Creation of Ritualized Bodies -- Chapter 11: The Reception of Ritual Laws in the Early Second Temple Period: Evidence from Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles -- Chapter 12: Text and Ritual in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Chapter 13: "And They Would Read Before Him the Order for the Day": The Textuality of Leviticus 16in Mishnah Yoma, Tosefta Kippurim, and Sifra Aḥare Mot -- Index…”
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The development of incense cult in Israel by Heger, Paul, 1924-

Table of Contents: “…Significance of the Incense Celebration in the Second Temple Period -- 5.1 The Biblical Text -- 5.2 Apocryphal and Historical Writings -- 6. …”
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Rewritten Bible after Fifty Years : a Last Dialogue with Geza Vermes by Zsengellér, József

Table of Contents: “…; Rewritten Bible: A Terminological Reassessment; Crossing the Borders from "Pre-Scripture" to Scripture (Rewritten) to "Rewritten Scripture"; Rewritten Scriptures as a Clue to Scribal Traditions in the Second Temple Period; Memory, Cultural Memory and Rewriting Scripture; Rewritten Bible and the Vocalization of the Biblical Text; Part 3 Case Studies.…”
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Figures who Shape Scriptures, Scriptures that Shape Figures : Essays in Honour of Benjamin G. Wright III

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Scriptural Authority in Early Judaism and Ancient Christianity. by Nicklas, Tobias

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HĀ-'ÎSH MŌSHE. by Y. Goldstein, Binyamin

Table of Contents: “…Omission and Transposition in the Book of Jubilees""; ""Chapter 4 Hot at Qumran, Cold in Jerusalem: A Reconsideration of Some Late Second Temple Period Attitudes to the Scriptures and their Interpretation""…”
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Priests, prophets and scribes

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; PART I: CHRONICLES, EZRA, NEHEMIAH; From Center to Periphery: 1 Chronicles 23-27 and the Interpretation of Chronicles in the Nineteenth Century; Defending the Boundaries of Israel in the Second Temple Period: 2 Chronicles 20 and the ''Salvation Army''; Ezra-Nehemiah or Ezra and Nehemiah?…”
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According to the law : reading Ezra 9-10 as Christian scripture by Saysell, Csilla

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Various Aspects of Worship in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature

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Holiness : Past and Present. by Barton, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…; 2 Rudolf Otto''s The Idea of the Holy Revisited; 3 The Sociology of Holiness: The Power of Being Good; 4 Changing your Holy Ground: An Ecology of Sacred and Secular in Cities of the Centre and the Periphery; Part 2 Holiness and Scripture; 5 Holiness in the Priestly Writings of the Old Testament; 6 ''Holy, Holy, Holy'': Isaiah''s Vision of God; 7 The Sanctification of Time in the Second Temple Period: Case Studies in the Septuagint and Jubilees.…”
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Wisdom in transition : act and consequence in Second Temple instructions by Adams, Samuel L., 1970-

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Was 70 CE a watershed in Jewish history? : on Jews and Judaism before and after the destruction of the Second Temple

Table of Contents: “…The rising power of the image : on Jewish magic art from the Second Temple period to late antiquity / Naama Vilozny -- Jewish exorcism before and after the destruction of the Second Temple / Gideon Bohak -- The emergence of a new Jewish art in late antiquity / Lee I. …”
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Proximity to power and Jewish sectarian groups of the ancient period : a review of lifestyle, values, and halakhah in the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and Qumran by Newman, Hillel

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The Mishnaic Sotah Ritual : Temple, Gender and Midrash. by Rosen-Zvi, Ishay

Table of Contents: “…Evidence of the ritual's historical existence in the Second Temple Period; Eduyot 5:6: The Story of Karkamit; Yoma 3:10: Helena's Gift; Sotah 9:9: The Tradition of the Discontinuation; An early Mishnah?…”
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The Antiochene crisis and jubilee theology in Daniel's seventy sevens by Ulrich, Dean R., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…The Sixty-Two Sevens of Daniel 9:25b; Introduction; Daniel 9:25b and Events of the Second Temple Period; The Rebuilding; The Trouble; The Six Objectives of Daniel 9:24 in the Sixty-Two Sevens; The Letter of Aristeas; Baruch; Tobit; 1Enoch; Summary.…”
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Judah and the Judeans in the Achaemenid Period : Negotiating Identity in an International Context. by Lipschits, Oded

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Negotiating Identity: Diversity within the Biblical Evidence -- Judean Identity and Ecumenicity: The Political Theology of the Priestly Document -- Torah and Identity in the Persian Period -- The Absent Presence: Cultural Responses to Persian Presence in the Eastern Mediterranean -- Ethnicity and Identity in Isaiah 56-66 -- Trito-Isaiah's Intra-and Internationalization: Identity Markers in the Second Temple Period -- From Ezekiel to Ezra-Nehemiah: Shifts of Group Identities within Babylonian Exilic Ideology…”
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Life after death : a history of the afterlife in the religions of the West by Segal, Alan F., 1945-2011

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What really happened in the Garden of Eden? by Zevit, Ziony

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The actuality of sacrifice : past and present

Table of Contents: “…Sacrifice without the rabbis: ritual and sacrifice in the Second Temple period according to contemporary sources -- Part 3. …”
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Angels : the concept of celestial beings : origins, development and reception

Table of Contents: “…Angels, the Final Age and 1-2Corinthians in Light Of The Dead Sea ScrollsThe Four (or Seven) Archangels in the First Book of Enoch and Early Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period; Guardian Angels and Angelic National Patrons in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity; The Great Opponent. …”
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Flavius Josephus : interpretation and history

Table of Contents: “…Kottek -- Josephus and discrepant sources / Etienne Nodet -- Josephus, the Temple, and the Jewish War / Eyal Regev -- The purposes and functions of the synagogue in late Second Temple period Judaea: evidence from Josephus and archaeological investigation / Samuel Rocca -- Propaganda, Fiktion und Symbolik: die Bedeutung des Jerusalemer Tempels im Werk des Josephus / Gottfried Schimanowski -- Josephus, Catullus, divine providence, and the date of the Judean War / Daniel R. …”
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With letters of light : studies in the Dead Sea scrolls, early Jewish apocalypticism, magic and mysticism in honor of Rachel Elior

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Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea scrolls by Collins, John J. (John Joseph), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- THE LITERARY GENRE APOCALYPSE IN ANTIQUITY -- APOCALYPSE AND PROPHECY -- THE APOCALYPTIC WORLDVIEW -- THE DIVERSITY OF THE SCROLLS -- APOCALYPTICISM AND THE SCROLLS -- 2 -- DANIEL, ENOCH AND RELATED LITERATURE -- DANIEL -- DANIEL'S VISIONS -- PSEUDO-DANIELIC WRITINGS -- THE ENOCH TRADITION -- JUBILEES -- THE APOCALYPSES AND THE ORIGIN OF THE DEAD SEA SECT -- 3 -- CREATION AND THE ORIGIN OF EVIL -- THE MYTH OF THE WATCHERS -- THE SAPIENTIAL TRADITION -- THE ENOCH TRADITION IN THE SCROLLS -- THE SAPIENTIAL TRADITION IN THE SCROLLS -- THE INSTRUCTION ON THE TWO SPIRITS -- ZOROASTRIAN INFLUENCE -- DUALISM IN A JEWISH CONTEXT -- A CORPUS OF DUALISTIC WRITINGS -- DUALISM AND THE IDEOLOGY OF THE SECT -- 4 -- THE PERIODS OF HISTORY AND THE EXPECTATION OF THE END -- THE PERIODIZATION OF HISTORY -- PERIODIZATION IN THE SCROLLS -- THE END OF DAYS -- EXCURSUS ON THE TEMPLE SCROLL AND NEW JERUSALEM TEXT -- THE CALCULATION AND RECALCULATION OF THE END -- THE CALCULATION OF THE END IN THE SCROLLS -- THE NATURE OF THE END -- THE PERSISTENCE OF ESCHATOLOGICAL EXPECTATION -- 5 -- MESSIANIC EXPECTATION -- THE IDEA OF A MESSIAH -- THE ORIGIN OF MESSIANIC EXPECTATION -- THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD -- MESSIANISM IN THE HASMONEAN PERIOD -- MESSIAHS OF AARON AND ISRAEL -- THE ROLE OF THE DAVIDIC MESSIAH -- THE "SON OF GOD" TEXT -- THE PRIESTLY MESSIAH -- THE MESSIAH WHOM HEAVEN AND EARTH OBEY -- CONCLUSION -- 6 -- THE ESCHATOLOGICAL WAR -- THE TRADITIONAL OPPOSITION -- THE ESCHATOLOGICAL WAR IN THE SCROLLS -- THE REGULATIONS FOR WARFARE IN 1QM 2-9 -- THE DUALISTIC FRAMEWORK -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WAR RULE -- THE WAR RULE AND THE DEAD SEA SECT -- 7 -- RESURRECTION AND ETERNAL LIFE -- BIBLICAL PRECEDENTS -- THE EARLY APOCALYPSES: RESURRECTION OF THE SPIRIT -- JOSEPHUS ON THE ESSENES -- THE EVIDENCE OF THE RULE BOOKS -- THE HODAYOT -- THE BURIALS AT QUMRAN -- RESURRECTION IN SCROLLS THAT ARE NOT CLEARLY SECTARIAN -- CONCLUSION -- 8 -- THE HEAVENLY WORLD -- THE APOCALYPTIC TRADITION -- THE QUESTION OF MYSTICISM -- THE HEAVENLY WORLD IN THE SCROLLS -- THE SONGS OF SABBATH SACRIFICE -- THE FUNCTION OF THE SABBATH SONGS -- A THRONE IN HEAVEN (4Q491) -- CONCLUSION -- 9 -- THE APOCALYPTICISM OF THE SCROLLS IN CONTEXT -- THE APOCALYPTIC WORLDVIEW -- CONTINUITY AND INNOVATION -- THE PLACE OF APOCALYPTICISM IN ANCIENT JUDAISM -- JESUS OF NAZARETH AND THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS -- THE EARLY CHURCH -- THE FATE OF THE SCROLLS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS -- INDEX OF PASSAGES.…”
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Excavations in the City of David, Jerusalem (1995-2010) by Reich, Ronny

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 37: A STAMPED HANDLE WITH AN ARABIC INSCRIPTION -- Chapter 38: ROOF TILES -- Chapter 39: A GREEK INSCRIPTION -- Chapter 40: STONE SCALE WEIGHTS -- Chapter 41: LATE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD STONE VESSELS -- Chapter 42: THE GROUND STONE ASSEMBLAGE -- Chapter 43: SUNDIAL -- Chapter 44: METAL SCALE WEIGHTS AND WEIGHT-LIKE OBJECTS -- Chapter 46: METAL FINDS -- Chapter 46: THE GLASS FINDS -- Chapter 47: VARIA -- Chapter 48: SYNTHESIS AND SUMMARY…”
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Second Temple Pseudepigraphy : a Cross-cultural Comparison of Apocalyptic Texts and Related Jewish Literature. by Dobroruka, Vicente, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…4.3 Fraud and satire: written instructions for the Greek credulous5 Summary; Chapter 5 -- Philo, Josephus and 4Ezra: the main testimonies for inspired writing during the Second Temple Period; 1 Introductory remarks to the chapter; 2 Survey of chosen passages; 2.1 Philo of Alexandria; 2.2 Josephus; 2.3 4Ezra; 3 Issues at stake in cross-cultural comparison regarding the three authors; 3.1 Knowledge and scholarship as essential issues; 3.2 More sophisticated devices in terms of preparation versus rationalizing; 4 Summary; Chapter 6 -- Considerations on religious pseudepigraphy in Antiquity.…”
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Abraham and Melchizedek : scribal activity of Second Temple times in Genesis 14 and Psalm 110 by Granerød, Gard

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Intolerance, polemics, and debate in antiquity : politico-cultural, philosophical, and religious forms of critical conversation

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 4 Intolerance in Early Judaism: Emic and Etic Descriptions of Jewish Religions in the Second Temple PeriodPart 2 Discourses with Greek and Roman Powers; Chapter 5 Intolerance and Freedom of Thought in Classical Athens: the Trial of Socrates; Chapter 6 Antiochus IV Epiphanes's Policy towards the Jews; Chapter 7 Contesting Oikoumenē: Resistance and Locality in Philo's Legatio ad Gaium; Chapter 8 Stranger Danger! …”
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Bones and Identity : Zooarchaeological Approaches to Reconstructing Social and Cultural Landscapes in Southwest Asia. by Marom, Nimrod

Table of Contents: “…Meat Consumption Patterns as an Ethnic Marker in the Late Second Temple Period : Comparing the Jerusalem City Dump and Qumran Assemblages / Ram Bouchnik -- 17. …”
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Textual and literary criticism of the Books of Kings : collected essays by Trebolle Barrera, Julio C.

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Introduction to the Hebrew Prophets by Nogalski, James

Table of Contents: “…-- Updating the Corpus through the Persian Period -- The Structure and Contents in Isaiah -- Isaiah 1-12: Introductions to the Book and to Early Traditions -- Isaiah 1: The Book's Thematic Introduction -- Isaiah 2-4: Removing Idols and Injustice -- Isaiah 5:1-10:4: Judgment on the South and the North -- Isaiah 10:5-12:6: Punishment of Assyria and Restoration of King and People -- Isaiah 13-27: Judging the Nations and the World -- Isaiah 13-23: Judgment against Foreign Nations -- The Early Core of Isaiah 13-23 -- The Babylonian Expansion -- A Zion Expansion in 13-23 -- Isaiah 24-27: A Shift to Universal Judgment -- Universal Judgment for the Righteous and the Wicked -- A Thematic Hinge between 13-23 and Beyond -- Isaiah 28-35: An Early Core and Persian-Period Updates -- Isaiah 28-31: Calls for Change -- Isaiah 32-35: Literary Bridges -- Isaiah 36-39: An Adapted Narrative -- Isaiah 40-55: Returning from Exile -- Isaiah 40-48: Leaving Babylon -- Topics Distinctive to 40-48 -- Topics Shared but Distinct in 40-48 and 49-55 -- Isaiah 49-55: Coming to Jerusalem -- Isaiah 56-66: Contention and Debate in the Second Temple Period -- Consensus, Fractures, Models -- The Compositional Blocks -- Isaiah 60-62: Conversations with Lady Zion and the Servant -- Isaiah 56:9-59:21: Blaming the People and Awaiting a Change -- Isaiah 63-66: Victory over Edom and Calls to the Servants -- Chapter 2: Jeremiah -- Historical Backdrop.…”
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