Jewish World in the Time of Jesus
Published on 14. June 2022
296 pages
978-1-83974-818-9 (ISBN)
Description
Christian scholar Charles Guignebert (1867--1939) lectured extensively on Christian history at the Sorbonne, and conducted a 23 year long "seminar" on the New Testament. In this extensive work, Guignebert examines the Jewish world that would form the backdrop to the emergence of the early Christians.
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION-JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
- JUDAISM ABOUT THE TIME OF JESUS
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- BOOK I-THE POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CONDITION OF PALESTINE
- CHAPTER I-THE COUNTRIES OF PALESTINE
- I-PALESTINE
- II-GALILEE
- CHAPTER II-THE SOURCES
- I-LATE JUDAISM
- II-THE REMAINS OF THE HISTORICAL LITERATURE
- III-THE STRICTLY RELIGIOUS DOCUMENTS
- CHAPTER III-THE POLITICAL SYSTEM
- THE HISTORY OF PALESTINE DURING THE PERIOD PRECEDING THE BIRTH OF JESUS
- I-THE EXILE AND THE RETURN
- II-THE REVOLT OF THE MACCABEES AND THE HASMONEAN DYNASTY
- III-THE RULE OF THE ROMAN PROCURATORS
- CHAPTER IV-RELIGIOUS CONDITIONS
- I-THE EXILIC PROPHETS
- II-THE RETURN
- CHAPTER V-THE POWER OF THE PRIESTHOOD
- I-THE SANHEDRIN
- II-THE TEMPLE
- III-THE TEMPLE WORSHIP
- CHAPTER VI-THE LAW. THE SCRIBES. THE SYNAGOGUES
- I-THE TORAH
- II-THE SCRIBES, DOCTORS OF THE LAW
- III-THE SYNAGOGUE
- IV-ISRAEL, THE PEOPLE OF THE TORAH
- BOOK II-INNOVATIONS AND FOREIGN INFLUENCES
- CHAPTER I-THE ORIGIN OF INNOVATIONS. GOD AND HIS HYPOSTASES
- I-THE ORIGIN OF INNOVATIONS
- II-GOD AND HIS HYPOSTASES
- CHAPTER II-ANGELS AND DEMONS
- I-ANGELS
- II-DEMONS
- CHAPTER III-THE NATURE AND DESTINY OF MAN
- I-THE NATURE OF MAN
- II-MAN'S DESTINY
- III-THE RESURRECTION
- CHAPTER IV-ESCHATOLOGY AND MESSIANISM
- I-THE FOUNDATIONS OF JEWISH ESCHATOLOGY
- II-THE NEW COVENANT AFTER THE DAY OF JAHWEH
- III-PREDOMINANCE OF ESCHATOLOGY ABOUT THE TIME OF JESUS
- IV-CHARACTER OF THE MESSIAH
- V-THE PLACE OF MESSIANISM IN JEWISH LIFE
- CHAPTER V-THE PROBLEM OF UNIVERSALISM: THE RESULT OF THE INNOVATIONS
- I-THE SUBJECTS OF THE KINGDOM
- II-THE IMPORTANCE OF THE INNOVATIONS
- BOOK III-THE REAL NATURE OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS LIFE IN PALESTINE
- CHAPTER I-THE MAIN CURRENTS OF ORTHODOX RELIGION: THE SADDUCEES, THE PHARISEES AND THE ZEALOTS
- I-THE SADDUCEES
- II-THE PHARISEES
- III-THE ZEALOTS
- CHAPTER II-THE ESSENES
- I-WHAT WE KNOW OF THEM. THE NAME
- II-ORIGIN OF THE SECT
- III-THE ESSENE COMMUNITY. ITS MODE OF LIFE
- IV-DOCTRINES
- CHAPTER III-THE SECTS. THE PEOPLE
- I-ACTUAL EXISTENCE OF SECTS. SOURCES OF INFORMATION
- II-SAMARIA AND SAMARITAN DOCTRINES
- III-DISTINCTIVELY JEWISH SECTS
- IV-JUDAISM AS A SYNCRETISTIC RELIGION
- V-THE PEOPLE
- BOOK IV-HELLENISTIC JUDAISM
- CHAPTER I-THE DIASPORA
- I-ORIGIN AND DISTRIBUTION
- II-THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE DIASPORA
- III-THE STATUS OF THE JEWS IN THE EMPIRE
- IV-INFLUENCE OF THE GREEK ENVIRONMENT
- V-JEWISH PROPAGANDA
- ITS CAUSES
- VI-METHODS AND SUCCESS OF JEWISH PROPAGANDA
- CHAPTER II-THE JUDÆO-PAGAN SYNCRETISM
- I-THE RECIPROCAL INFLUENCE OF JUDAISM AND PAGANISM
- II-SYNCRETISTIC CONCEPTIONS OF GOD
- III-THE SYNCRETISTIC GNOSIS
- IV-THE JEWISH SECTS
- CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PERIODICALS, DICTIONARIES AND REPORTS-
- GENERAL WORKS
- SPECIAL WORKS
- 1. THE PRE-EXILIC PROPHETS AND THEIR TIMES
- 2. EARLY JUDAISM
- WORKS RELATING TO THE SECOND VOLUME
