The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ: Volume 1

by Schürer, Emil; Millar, Fergus; Vermes, Geza

• ISBN13: 9780567501615
• ISBN10: 0567501612
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-03-26
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Summary

Emil Schürer's Geschichte des judischen Volkes im Zeitalter Jesu Christi, originally published in German between 1874 and 1909 and in English between 1885 and 1891, is a critical presentation of Jewish history, institutions, and literature from 175 B.C. to A.D. 135. It has rendered invaluable services to scholars for nearly a century.

The present work offers a fresh translation and a revision of the entire subject-matter. The bibliographies have been rejuvenated and supplemented; the sources are presented according to the latest scholarly editions; and all the new archaeological, epigraphical, numismatic and literary evidence, including the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bar Kokhba documents, has been introduced into the survey. Account has also been taken of the progress in historical research, both in the classical and Jewish fields. This work reminds students of the profound debt owed to nineteenth-century learning, setting it within a wider framework of contemporary knowledge, and provides a foundation on which future historians of Judaism in the age of Jesus may build.

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Introduction/1. Scope and Purpose of the Work/2. Auxiliary Sciences/3. The Sources/The First Period/4. Religious Crisis and Revolution 175-164 B.C./5. Judas Maccabaeus 164-161 B.C./6. Jonathan 161-143(2) B.C/7. Simon 143(2)-135(4) B.C./8. John Hyrcanus I 135(4)-104 b.c./9. Aristobulus I 104-103 B.C./10. Alexander Jannaeus 103-76 B.C./11. Alexandra 76-67 B.C./12. Aristobulus II 67-63 B.C./ The Second Period/13. Hyrcanus II 63-40 B.C.; the rise of Antipater and his Sons Phasael and Herod/14. Antigonus 40-37 B.C./15. Herod the Great37-4 B.C./16. Disturbances after Herod's Death 4 B.C./17. From the Death of Herod the Great to Agrippa I 4 B.C.-A.D. 41./18. Agrippa I A.D. 37, 40, 41-44./19. The Roman Procurators A.D 44-66/20. The Great War with Rome A.D. 66-74/21. From the Destruction of Jerusalmen to the Downfall of Bar Kokhba/Appendices