Ancient JudaismWeber’s classic study which deals specifically with: Types of Asceticism and the Significance of Ancient Judaism, History and Social Organization of Ancient Palestine, Political Organization and Religious Ideas in the Time of the Confederacy and the Early Kings, Political Decline, Religious Conflict and Biblical Prophecy. |
Contents
| 23 | |
The Social Laws of the Israelite Legal Collections | 61 |
Warfare and War Prophecy | 90 |
Confederacy | 118 |
Cultic Peculiarities of Yahwism | 149 |
Priests and the Cult Monopoly of Jerusalem | 169 |
Forms of Israelite Intellectuality in the Pre | 194 |
Ethics and Eschatology of Yahwism | 219 |
The Ethic and Theodicy of the Prophets | 297 |
The Pariah Community | 336 |
The Exile | 356 |
Sects and Cults of the PostExile Period | 385 |
Judaism and Early Christianity | 405 |
Notes 495 | 425 |
Map Location of Historic Places | 462 |
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