Megillat Taanit as a Source for Jewish Chronology and History in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods / / Solomon Zeitlin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Zeitlin, Solomon,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Analecta Gorgiana
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (124 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; 1. Origin of the Megillat Taanit --; 2. Chronology in Maccabees I and II --; 3. The Order of the Sabbatical Cycles --; 4. Contents and Characteristics of Maccabees I and II --; 5. The Calendar System in Bellum Iudaicum --; 6. The Great Revolt against the Romans --; 7. Megillat Taanit: Text and Translation --; 8. The Pre-Hasmonean Period --; 9. The Period of the Hasmoneans --; 10. The Roman Period --; 11. The Great War against the Romans --; 12. Miscellaneous
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463214654; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463214654
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Solomon Zeitlin.

Zeitlin’s masterful work supplies the Megillat Taanit’s text and a translation as well as a deft reading of this source’s utility for the history of the Jews from the Maccabees to the Great Revolt.