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| Title: Faith and Piety in Early Judaism: Texts and Documents Type: Book Year: 1983 Abstract: "This collection of translated and annotated texts and documents from the Second Temple period is arranged in six sections: (1) sects and parties, (2) Temple and cult, (3) ideals of piety, (4)deliverance, judgement and vindication, i.e. resurrection and eternal life, (5) the agents of divine deliverance, i.e. the messiah, the son of man, etc, (6) Lady Wisdom. The extra-biblical texts quoted include excerpts from the Samaritan Chronicle, Josephus, Qumran writings, Philo, the Testaments of the XII Patriarchs, and rabbinic literature. Each section has an introduction and bibliography of primary as well as secondary sources. - Notes, index of passages quoted". Keywords: Cultural and Religious History of Ancient Judaism |