Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ (1876 Edersheim), book

Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ (1876) is a book by Alfred Edersheim.

Editions

Published in London: Religious Tract Society, 1876. First American edition published in Boston: Bradley & Woodruff, 1876. Reprinted several times in London: Religious Tract Society, 1877-1925; several times in New York, NY: Hodder & Stoughton, 1881-1910; Boston: Ira Bradley & Co., 1881; several times in Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1950-1993.

Translations

• Usos y costumbres de los judíos en los tiempos de Cristo (1993 Edersheim), book (Spanish ed.)

Table of contents

• 1. Palestine Eighteen Centuries Ago
• 2. Jews and Gentiles in "The Land"
• 3. In Galilee at the Time of Our Lord
• 4. Travelling in Palestine: Roads, Inns, Hospitality, Custom-House Officers, Taxation, Publicans
• 5. In Judaea
• 6. Jewish Homes
• 7. The Upbringing of Jewish Children
• 8. Subjects of Study. Home Education in Israel; Female Education, Schools and Schoolmasters
• 9. Mothers, Daughters, and Wives in Israel
• 10. In Death and After Death
• 11. Jewish Views on Trade, Tradesmen, and Trades' Guilds
• 12. Commerce
• 13. Among the People, and with the Pharisees
• 14. The "Fraternity" of Pharisees
• 15. Relation of the Pharisees to the Sadducees and Essenes, and
• 16. Synagogues: Their Origin, Structure, and Outward Arrangement
• 17. The Worship of the Synagogue
• 18. Outline of Ancient Jewish Theological Literature
• Appendices

External links

• Internet Archive (full text)
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