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This volume contains Etienne Nodet’s fascinating theory of Jewish origins. This radical reconstruction of the origins of Judaism starts by observing that Josephus’s sources on the early history of Israel do not agree with the Bible and that the oldest rabbinic traditions show no sign of a biblical foundation. Another interesting question is raised by the Samaritan claim, at the time of Antiochus...

the result of this was an Aaronite dynasty, but according to 2 Maccabees (which called to mind the resurrection, in regard to the martyrs), there emerged from this not a high priesthood, but a sort of ideal image of the Temple. This difference corresponds to a fairly great extent to the difference between the Sadducees and the Pharisees, which does not imply however that either one or the other would have been in favour of armed resistance. The list given in the prologue of Pirke Abot
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