A Vision of the Days: Studies in Early Jewish History and Historiography. This item is unavailable.A Vision of the Days: Studies in Early Jewish History and Historiography

This collection of essays treats many aspects of ancient Jewish history and modern historiography in this area, with an emphasis on the history and literature of the Second Temple period and especially on the writings of Josephus. It is dedicated to Daniel R. Schwarz, and reflects his central academic interests. Additional essays deal with historical and ideological aspects of classical rabbinic literature, with archeological finds and with perceptions of the Jews and Judaism on the part of non-Jews in the Second Temple period and later.

Robert Brody, Ph.D., Harvard University (1975) and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1982), is Professor Emeritus of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of many books and articles on Talmudic and rabbinic literature.
Noah Hacham, Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2003), is Herbst Family Professor of Jewish History at that university. He is co-author of The New Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum (De Gruyter, 2020, 2022) and many articles on second Temple Judaism.
Meron Piotrkowski, Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2015), is Associate Professor of Jewish History at the University of Oxford. He is a historian of the Second Temple period, focusing on the Egyptian-Jewish Diaspora, the author of Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2019) and part of the team of commentators and contributors to the New Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum (vols. 4–6).
Jan Willem van Henten, Ph.D., Leiden University (1986), is Emeritus Professor of Religion at the University of Amsterdam, and Extra-Ordinary Professor of Biblical Studies at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. His publications mainly concern the Maccabean Books, the works of Flavius Josephus and aspects of the reception of the Bible.