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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...

preceding chapters, may be summed up in the form of a list of characteristic points going back over time. 1. The rabbinic tradition represented by the Mishnah, and firmly fixed in Galilee, was a combination of two branches with different destinies, whose common beginning was made up of Jews of a Hasidaean type, who had immigrated to Palestine and were bearers of oral traditions that were Babylonian and non-biblical. The first branch, not Zealot in any way, had remained or was reassembled in Galilee,
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