Texts and Traditions: A Source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism

Hoboken, NJ: KTAV Pub. House, 2018; (1998). Small quarto in polished blue cloth; xxvi, 777 pages; 24 cm Near fine with minor edge wear. No jacket, presumably as issued. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780881254341, 9780881254556

"An indispensible companion text, Texts and Traditions includes the essential documents of the various religious trends of the Second Temple and Rabbinic periods as well as Josephus, Greek and Aramaic inscriptions, classical historians and talmudic sources." --Publisher. // Contents: The biblical heritage. Judaism in the Persian period. The Hellenistic age. Judaism in the Hellenistic diaspora. Sectarianism in the second commonwealth. Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and the Dead Sea scrolls. The Jewish-Christian schism. Revolt and restoration. Mishnah: the new scripture. The sea of the Talmud. The lie of Torah. Epilogue: the hegemony of the Babylonian Talmud.