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The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (1973-1987) is a book by Emil Schürer and Géza Vermès.

Abstract

The Schurer project, the revision of Emil Schurer’s classic Geschichte des judischen Volkes im Zeitalter Jesu Christi, first published in 1874 but revised and enlarged in 1886-98 (2nd ed.) and 1901-1909 (3rd/4th editions), began in 1964 when Matthew Black commissioned the translation of Schurer’s German text into English. The project continued with the work of Geza Vermes, Fergus Millar, and Martin Goodman, who substantially revised Schurer’s work. In addition to the translation work the Vermes/Millar revision (1) removed obsolete bibliography and polemical material; (2) added post-Schurer bibliography; (3) modernized the references to texts, papyri, inscriptions and coin legends; and (4) added archaeological, epigraphic, papyrological and numismatic references including the Qumran materials and Bar Kochba documents. - Ronald Ruark, University of Michigan

Editions

Translations

• Historia del pueblo judío en tiempos de Jesús (1985 Schürer / de la Fuente/Adánez), book (Spanish ed.)

• Storia del popolo giudaico al tempo di Gesù Cristo = The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (1985-98 Schürer, Vermès / Soffritti, Chiesa, Gianotto), book (Italian ed.)

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

• 1. Scope and Purpose of the Work
• 2. Auxiliary Sciences
• 3. The Sources

PART ONE

The First Period: From Antiochus Epiphanes to the Capture of Jerusalem by Pompey - The Maccabaean Rising and the Age of Independence 175 B.C. - 63 B.C.

Survey of the History of Syria in the Last Centuries of Seleucid Rule

• 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 67-63 B.C.

The Second Period: From the Capture of Jerusalem by Pompey to the Hadrianic War - The Roman-Herodian Age 63 B.C - A.D. 135

Survey of the Roman Province of Syria from 63 B.C. to A.D. 70

• 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 Great 37-4 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. The Sons of Herod
• 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 Jerusalem to the Downfall of Bar Kokhba

Appendices

Volume II

• 22. The Cultural Setting

• 23. Political Institutions

• 24. Priesthood and Temple Worship

Appendix: Gentile Participation in Worship at Jerusalem

• 25. Torah Scholarship

• 26. Pharisees and Sadducees

• 27. School and Synagogue

Appendix: The Shema’ and the Shemoneh ‘Esreh

• 28. Life and the Law

• 29. Messianism

Appendix A. The Suffering Messiah

Appendix B. The Qumran Messiahs and Messianism

• 30. The Essenes

Appendix A. The Therapeutae

Appendix B. The Fourth Philosophy: Sicarii and Zealots

Volume III.1

• 31. Judaism in the Diaspora: Gentiles and Judaism

• 32. Jewish Literature Composed in Hebrew or Aramaic

• 33A. Jewish Literature Composed in Greek.

• 33B. Jewish Literature of which the Original Language is Uncertain.

• 34. The Jewish Philosopher Philo

Volume III.2

• 33B. Jewish Literature of which the Original Language is Uncertain

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