Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview (2012 Collins, Harlow), edited volume

Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview (2012) is a volume edited by John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow.

Abstract

"Culled from The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, a monumental, groundbreaking reference work published in late 2010, Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview contains fifteen first-rate essays from a diverse group of internationally renowned scholars. This volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative overview available of Judaism in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods."--Publisher description.

Editions and translations

Published in Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2012.

Table of contents

• Early Judaism in modern scholarship / John J. Collins

• Jewish history from Alexander to Hadrian / Chris Seeman, Adam Kolman Marshak

• Judaism in the land of Israel / James C. VanderKam

• Judaism in the diaspora / Erich S. Gruen

• The Jewish scriptures : texts, versions, canons / Eugene Ulrich

• Early Jewish biblical interpretation / James L. Kugel

• Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha / Loren T. Stuckenbruck

• The Dead Sea scrolls / Eibert Tigchelaar

• Early Jewish literature written in Greek / Katell Berthelot

• Philo / Gregory E. Sterling, David T. Runia, Maren R. Niehoff, Annewies van den Hoek

• Josephus / Steve Mason, James S. McLaren, John M.G. Barclay

• Archaeology, papyri, and inscriptions / Jürgen K. Zangenberg

• Jews among Greeks and Romans / Miriam Pucci Ben Zeev

• Early Judaism and early Christianity / Daniel C. Harlow

• Early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism / Lawrence H. Schiffman