| CODE | NES2012 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Jews and Judaism during the Second Temple Period | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Oriental Studies | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit provides an introductory look at the history of the Jews and the development of Judaism during the Second Temple Period, with a focus on the 2nd century BCE and the 1st centuries BCE and CE. Topics that will be tackled include: the social structure of Palestine during this period; Jewish lifestyle, traditions, and customs; Jewish practices and beliefs; Jewish religious and secular literature; and the relations of Jews with neighbouring cultures. The evidence which will be presented and discussed throughout this study-unit comprises both archaeological and textual evidence, and thus, from a methodological point of view, this unit should be particularly useful for students who want to specialise in historical archaeology. Reading List: - Baumgarten, A.I. 1997. The flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era, Leiden: Brill. - Cohen, S.J.D. 1987. From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, Philadelphia: Westminster Press. - Goodman, M. 2007. Rome and Jerusalem: the clash of civilizations, London: Allen Lane. - Grabbe, L.L. 1996. An introduction to first century Judaism: Jewish religio n and history in the Second Temple Period, Edinburgh: T&T Clark. - Grabbe, L.L. 2004. A history of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, London: T&T Clark. - Saldarini, A.J. 1995. Pharisees, scribes and Sadducees in Palestinian Society, Edinburgh: T&T Clark. - Sanders, E.P. 1992. Judaism: practice and belief. 63 BCE – 66 CE, London: SCM Press. - Schafer, P. 2003. The history of the Jews in the Greco-Roman world, London: Routledge. - Schurer, E. 1973. The history of the Jewish people in the age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C. - A.D. 135), 3 vols., London: T&T Clark (a new English version revised and edited by G. Vermes, F. Millar, and M. Black). - Stone, M.E. (ed.) 1984. Jewish writings of the Second Temple Period: Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Qumran, sectarian writings, Philo, Josephus, Assen: Van Gorcum. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | This study-unit cannot be taken by students who are registered or intend to register for a degree in Near Eastern Studies or Classical Hebrew. | |||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Dennis Mizzi |
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