The Jewish People in the First Century. Historical Geography, Political History, Social, Cultural and Religious Life and Institutions. Volume One. Volume Two. In co-operation with D. Flusser and W.C. van Unnik. - SAFRAI, S., and M. STERN, (eds.),

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?These (?) two volumes (?) share both a common title and one set of editors. Thirty separate articles, grouped into twenty-four consecutively numbered chapters, attempt to give a picture of life, in both Palestine and the Diaspora, which not only takes into account the relatively well known persons and events of the first century C.E., but which also and most especially clubs those levels (economic, religious, social, linguistic, etc.) which underlie the flow of historical cause and effect. Each chapter comes equipped with its own brief but up-to-date bibliographical data, and, at the end of Volume Two, the whole of Section One is analysed by lengthy and more than adequate indices. The first volume (sixteen articles grouped into ten chapters) deals first with literary and archaeological sources, and this entire initial chapter is supplemented by an Appendix which discusses some of the more important chronological ?cruces? of this period of history. The second chapter is an accurate (?) survey of the historica...
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1974Uitgever: Van Gorcum & Comp.