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The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era: An Interpretation
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by Albert I. Baumgartner

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This volume asks why Jewish groups - Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes and the Dead Sea Scroll sect - flourished during the Maccabean era. It argues that such a result is uncommon, requiring special explanation.
In the introduction, sectarianism is defined and its varieties in Second Temple Judaism assessed. Among the causes of the known results suggested are the encounter with an outside culture that seemed to be weakening the external national perimeter, the impact of expanded literacy, the move to the city from the farm, as well as eschatological hope aroused by Maccabean victory. In proposing these conclusions, full advantage is taken of recently published Qumran sources, such as 4QMMT. The objective is to discover the connection between context and consequence, which will explain why sectarianism was so prominent at that time.

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  • Title The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era: An Interpretation
  • Author Albert I. Baumgartner
  • Binding Leather
  • Pages 242
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill
  • Publication date 1997-09
  • ISBN 9789004107519 / 9004107517
  • Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6.1 x 0.83 in (23.50 x 15.49 x 2.11 cm)
  • Category Architecture
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97005232
  • Dewey Decimal Code 296.81

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Albert I. Baumgarten, Ph.D. (1972) in History, Columbia University, is Associate Professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. He has published numerous studies applying social scientific methods to the understanding of Second Temple Judaism.

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Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Boston, 1997.. Large octavo (250 x 170 mm), publisher's full cloth with publisher's illustrated dustjacket, xiii (+i), 240 S (+2) pp., a well preserved copy. [JSJS - Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism; 55]. - ISBN: 9004107517. - Contents / Inhalt : I. Setting the Stage. A social description of ancient Jewish sectarians. Sectarian options. Variations on the same theme. As seen by their contemporaries: Non-Jews. As seen by their contemporaries: Jews. For more mundane reasons. Structure/contingency/choice. 4QMMT and its implications -- II. The Encounter with Hellenism and its Effects. Disappointment. Food. Dress. Marriage. Commerce. Worship. Admonition. Closing the circle -- III. Literacy and its Implications. Sectarian ferment. Education and literacy. Cultural implications of literacy. Historical analogies. Ancient Jewish evidence. The other side of the coin. Literacy and sectarianism -- IV. Urbanization and its Consequences. Urbanization and… Read more
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