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Judaism: Torah, Talmud and Tradition

From Text to Tradition

A History of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism

by Lawrence H. Schiffman

An accessible history of Judaism from the return from exile to the completion of the Talmud. Schiffman covers the sects of the Second Temple period, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the destruction of the Temple and the rise of the rabbinic movement and its literature.

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