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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Marc Chagall (illustrator). (xvi) 442 p. Seller Inventory # 000283
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: near fine. First edition. Octavo. xvi, 442pp. Indices and 25 page bibliography. Red cloth lettered in gilt, with publisher's device on front cover. An ex-library copy with minimal rubber stamping on title & at bottom of text block, and a library pocket on rear pastedown. The history of Jews from the period of the Second Temple to the rise of Islam. Rather bellicose and revolutionary though variegated at the outset. the Jewish Pietist movement developed. into the Pharisee fellowships and fathers of talmudic scholarship, the Zealots, the Essenes and even the architects of the Christian church. (Publisher) Contents: The Hasmonean revolt in modern historiography -- Holy war and visions of redemption in the Hasmonean period -- Daniel and his three friends in exile -- The idea of the servant of God in the Book of Daniel -- Simeon Ben Shatah and Alexander Jannaeus -- The Psalms of Solomon, the Hasmonean decline and Christianity -- The great Sanhedrin in vision and reality. (OCLC) Volume 39 of the Brill series, "Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity." Note: First Hebrew edition of this work was published in Tel Aviv, 1980. Seller Inventory # 53251