The Jewish and Christian World 200 BC to AD 200

The introductory material leads naturally into the text which itself leads into alternating sections of commentary.

A. R. C. Leaney (Author)

9780521285575, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 22 November 1984

280 pages
21.6 x 13.8 x 1.9 cm, 0.36 kg

The three general editors of the Cambridge Bible Commentary series have all, in their teaching, experienced a lack of readily usable texts of the literature which is often called psuedepigrapha but which is more accurately defined as extra-biblical or parabiblical literature. The aim of this series is to help fill this gap. The welcome accorded to the Cambridge Bible Commentary has encouraged the editors to follow the same pattern here, except that carefully chosen extracts from the texts, rather than complete books, have normally been provided for comment. The introductory material leads naturally into the text which itself leads into alternating sections of commentary. Within the severe limits imposed by the size and scope of the series each contributor will attempt to provide for the student and general reader the results of modern scholarship, but has been asked to assume no specialized theological or linguistic knowledge.

Preface
Author's Foreword
Abbreviations
Maps
Part I
1. Historical Outline: Exile, Restoration and Diaspora
2. Diaspora: The Historical Background
3. Italy: Rome and the Jews
4. Syria, Phoenicia, Judaea, Egypt, Cyrene
5. The Jewish Diaspora and Roman Empire in Later Centuries
Part I
6. The Synagogue
7. Law, Prophets and Writings
8. Greek Versions, Apocrypha and Psuedepigrapha
9. The Qumran Writings
10. Early Rabbinic Judaism
11. Christian Writings
12. Writers, other than Jewish or Christian in the Roman Empire 200 BC to AD 200
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Biblical studies & exegesis [HRCG]