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==Abstract== | ==Abstract== | ||
This work has the particularity to have for admitted goal to return justice to Judaism of the Second Temple and to explain the complexity of this period. For Guignebert the scholars cannot lock anymore the Judaism inside the well protected hedge of the formalism. The Judaism is for him a complex, plural and constantly evolving religious fact, undergoing the influences of the Hellenism and the historic situation in which it is. The book analyzes in a critical way the religious situation in Palestine around the time of Jesus, without prejudices and bringing out the pluralism of sources. The book exposes the geography of the country, the political situation, the Jewish movements and institutions. Also he presents Pharisaic movement in a totally new way, by accepting the Jewish scholars' works. He ends by showing the liveliness of the Jewish spiritual life, his synchretism, from which arise two ways, which shall end in the Talmud and in the Gospel. -- '''Matteo Silvestrini, University of Lausanne''' -- | |||
==Editions and translations== | ==Editions and translations== | ||
Published in Paris (La Renaissance du livre, 1939). Reissued in 1950 (Paris: Michel, 1950). Translated into English (1939). | Published in Paris (La Renaissance du livre, 1939). Reissued in 1950 (Paris: Michel, 1950). Translated into English (1939). | ||
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Le monde juif vers le temps de Jésus (1935) is a book by Charles Guignebert.
Abstract
This work has the particularity to have for admitted goal to return justice to Judaism of the Second Temple and to explain the complexity of this period. For Guignebert the scholars cannot lock anymore the Judaism inside the well protected hedge of the formalism. The Judaism is for him a complex, plural and constantly evolving religious fact, undergoing the influences of the Hellenism and the historic situation in which it is. The book analyzes in a critical way the religious situation in Palestine around the time of Jesus, without prejudices and bringing out the pluralism of sources. The book exposes the geography of the country, the political situation, the Jewish movements and institutions. Also he presents Pharisaic movement in a totally new way, by accepting the Jewish scholars' works. He ends by showing the liveliness of the Jewish spiritual life, his synchretism, from which arise two ways, which shall end in the Talmud and in the Gospel. -- Matteo Silvestrini, University of Lausanne --
Editions and translations
Published in Paris (La Renaissance du livre, 1939). Reissued in 1950 (Paris: Michel, 1950). Translated into English (1939).
- The Jewish World in the Time of Jesus (1939 Guignebert), book (English ed.)
- El mundo judío hacia los tiempos de Jesús (1959 Guignebert), book (Spanish ed.)