From the Maccabees to the Mishnah PDF book is popular Religion book written by Shaye J. D. Cohen. The book was released by Westminster John Knox Press on 1987-01-01 with total hardcover pages 260. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read From the Maccabees to the Mishnah by Shaye J. D. Cohen in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
This book explores the period from the 160s to 63 B.C.E., when the Maccabees ruled the Jews, up to the publication of the Mishnah in the second century C.E.
"This book represents engaged scholarship at its very best. Cohen presents the vast range of texts at his command with brevity and wit. Elegantly written, this
This is a study of the notion of Jewishness from c. 200 BCE to c. 200 CE. Reasonable and well-informed people disputed whether a given person was Jewish or not;
This volume collects thirty essays by Shaye J.D. Cohen. First published between 1980 and 2006, these essays deal with a wide variety of themes and texts: Jewish
The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic law and, one could say, of rabbinic Judaism itself. It is overwhelmingly technical and focused on matters o
