From the Maccabees to the Mishnah (Biblia.com)

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This is the third edition of Shaye J. D. Cohen’s important and seminal work on the history and development of Judaism between 164 BCE to 300 CE. Cohen’s synthesis of religion, literature, and history offers deep insight into the nature of Judaism at this key period, including the relationship between Jews and Gentiles, the function of Jewish religion in the larger community, and the development...

and purified the temple; the end of Seleucid rule followed twenty years later (142 BCE). The most striking feature of the Hellenistic period is its spectacular finish, but in their own quiet and poorly attested way, the fourth and third centuries BCE emerge as an important transition period in the history of Judaism. These centuries witnessed the growth of the Diaspora, the “scattering” of the Jews throughout the world; the beginnings of the canonization of Scripture; the writing of the earliest

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