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Book cover image of The Jewish and Christian World 200 BC to AD 200 by A. R. C. Leaney

Authors: A. R. C. Leaney, Alfred R. Leaney
ISBN-13: 9780521285575, ISBN-10: 0521285577
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 1984
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: A. R. C. Leaney

Book Synopsis

The introductory material leads naturally into the text which itself leads into alternating sections of commentary.

Table of Contents

Preface; Author's Foreword; Abbreviations; Maps;

Part I;

1. Historical Outline: Exile, Restoration and Diaspora;
2. Diaspora: The Historical Background;
3. Italy: Rome and the Jews;
4. Syria, Phoenicia, Judaea, Egypt, Cyrene;
5. The Jewish Diaspora and Roman Empire in Later Centuries;

Part I;
6. The Synagogue;
7. Law, Prophets and Writings;
8. Greek Versions, Apocrypha and Psuedepigrapha;
9. The Qumran Writings;
10. Early Rabbinic Judaism;
11. Christian Writings;
12. Writers, other than Jewish or Christian in the Roman Empire 200 BC to AD 200; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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