Name/Title
Beginnings of Judaism Isaiah M. Gafni.Description
Lecture 1. The beginnings of Judaism--Biblical roots -- Lecture 2. New challenges in the late biblical period -- Lecture 3. Jews under Persian rule--The return to Zion -- Lecture 4. The challenge of Hellenism -- Lecture 5. The Maccabees-- From rebels to kings -- Lecture 6. The canonization of the Hebrew Bible -- Lecture 7. Translating the Bible--The Septuagint -- Lecture 8. Adding to the Bible--The Apocrypha -- Lecture 9. Tobit--A new path of righteousness -- Lecture 10. Retelling the Bible--The book of Jubilees -- Lecture 11. Revealing the unknown -- Lecture 12. "Judaism" or "Judaisms"? -- Lecture 13. Sectarianism--Pharisees and Sadducees -- Lecture 14. Out of the caves--Discovery at Qumran -- Lecture 15. The End of Days--Messianic eschatology -- Lecture 16. Other lands, other Jews--The Diaspora -- Lecture 17. Judaism in the Hellenistic world -- Lecture 18. Changing God's address--Temple to synagogue -- Lecture 19. Rome arrives in Jerusalem -- Lecture 20. Parting with the temple -- Lecture 21. From Jerusalem to Yavne--Rabbinic Judaism -- Lecture 22. The shaping of Rabbinic Judaism -- Lecture 23. A violent epilogue--Bar Kokhba -- Lecture 24. From "Roots" to "Tree."
4 videodiscs :sd., col. ;4 3/4 in. +1 course guidebook (iv, 140 p. ; 19 cm.)Publication Details
Publication Type
VIDEODate Published
2008Publication Subjects
Judaism--History.
Jewish fundamentalism.Call No.
Video BeginningsISBN
1598033980, 9781598033984