Judaism in late antiquity. / 3, : Volume 4 : Where we stand : issues and debates in ancient Judaism. / / edited by Jacob Neusner.

• Superior document: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, der Nahe und Mittlere Osten, 55. Bd.
• TeilnehmendeR: Neusner, Jacob, 1932-; Avery-Peck, Alan J. 1953-; Chilton, Bruce.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 55.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (207 pages).
• Notes: Pt. 3, volume 4 edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner.; Pt. 5, volume 1-2 edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck, Jacob Neusner and Bruce D. Chilton.

What, in Judaism - a religion so concerned with social norms and public policy - can we possibly mean by "law"? That is the thoroughly fresh perspective with which this work commences. It proceeds with two chapters on Second Temple Judaism, and two on the special subject of the Dead Sea li...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary material / Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner
• THE QUESTION OF THE SYNAGOGUE: THE PROBLEM OF TYPOLOGY / Jodi Magness
• THE DATING OF THE GUSH HALAV SYNAGOGUE: A RESPONSE TO JODI MAGNESS / Eric M. Meyers
• SYNAGOGUE TYPOLOGY AND KHIRBET SHEMAʿ: A RESPONSE TO JODI MAGNESS / James F. Strange
• A RESPONSE TO ERIC M. MEYERS AND JAMES F. STRANGE / Jodi Magness
• THE SYNAGOGUE AS METAPHOR / James F. Strange
• PROLEGOMENON TO A THEORY OF EARLY SYNAGOGUE DEVELOPMENT / Paul Y.M. Flesher
• THE ANCIENT SYNAGOGUES AT BARʿAM / Mordechai Aviam
• AN ARAMAIC AMULET FROM BARʿAM / Joseph Naveh
• GENERAL INDEX / Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner
• HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK / Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner.