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The Religion and Worship of the Synagogue: An Introduction to the Study of Judaism from the New Testament Period is unavailable, but you can change that!

For many Christians, the Jewish religion after Christ has seemed vague, mysterious, and even irrelevant. First published in 1907, W. O. E. Oesterley and G. H. Box’s classic The Religion and Worship of the Synagogue filled a void in scholarship on the Jewish tradition written for a Christian audience. It is a handbook for students of comparative religion, Christian theologians, and all those “who...

The advent of Cyrus as deliverer had, it is true, excited the hopes of the more patriotic of the Jewish exiles to the highest pitch. They looked for a second Exodus—this time from Babylon1—and for the establishment of Israel in the Holy Land on the basis of a new covenant, and in a form fitted to express the lofty conceptions that had been developed of the covenant-people’s vocation and destiny.2 These aspirations find their sublimest expression and most gorgeous setting in the discourses of the
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