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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Analecta Gorgiana
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Physical Description:1 online resource (124 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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