Ancient Judaism: New Visions and Views
Ancient
Judaism questions a broad range of basic assumptions made by students
of Second Temple Judaism and calls for a radical rethinking of
approaches to Jewish history studies. Michael Stone challenges
theologically conditioned histories of ancient Judaism devised by later
orthodoxies, whether Jewish or Christian, and he stresses the importance
of understanding religious experience as a major factor in the
composition of ancient religious documents. Addressing the Dead Sea
Scrolls and apocalyptic literature as well as recent theories, Stone
emphasizes the stunning complexity of both the raw data and the
resulting picture of Judaism in antiquity.
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