Proximity to Power and Jewish Sectarian Groups of the Ancient Period : A Review of Lifestyle, Values, and Halakha in the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and Qumran /

This book deals with the values, lifestyle and code of law of four Jewish sectarian groups in the Hellenistic and Roman (Second Temple) period, in the land of Israel. It reviews the groups according to their proximity to power, highlighting the fact that political involvement has a decisive impact o...

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Main Author: Newman, Hillel (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2006.

Series: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
The Brill Reference Library of Judaism ; 25.

Subjects:

Jews > History > 168 B.C.-135 A.D.

Jews > Politics and government > To 70 A.D.

Jews > Social conditions.

Power (Social sciences) > Palestine > History > To 1500.