22. The Cultural Setting 23. Political Institutions 24. Priesthood and Temple Worship 25. Torah Scholarship 26. Pharisees and Sadducees 27. School and Synagogue 28. Life and the Law 29. Messianism 30. The Essenes
A critical presentation of Jewish history, institutions, and literature from 175 B.C. to A.D 135.
Emil Schurer (1844 – 1910) was a German Protestant theologian. He lectured at Leipzig, Giessen, Kiel, and Göttingen and founded and edited the journal Theologische Literaturzeitung. He devoted most of his scholarly life to the creation of his magisterial work on the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ. Geza Vermes, F.B.A., was Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and Director of the Forum of Qumran Research at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UK. Fergus Millar, F.B.A., is Emeritus Camden Professor of Ancient History in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford, UK. Matthew Black, F.B.A., was Emeritus Professor of Biblical Criticism, and former Principal of St. Mary's College at the University of St. Andrews, UK. Pamela Vermes was former Literary Editor of the Journal of Jewish Studies, Oxford, UK.
Without any doubt . . . a major work of scholarship . . .
*Journal of Jewish Studies*
The obsolete has been excised fomr text, notes, and bibliographies,
which have all been revised. And of course a quantity of wholly new
material, unknown to Schürer, has had to be incorporated, such as
archaeological finds, the Qumran and Bar Kokhba documents and the
Babylonian tablets which have recently been throwing light on
obscure areas of Seleucid (and Parthian) chronology...All that was
best in the original has been preserved: notably its depth of
learning, laudable succinctness, and remarkable clarity of
organization.
*The Classical Review*
The appearance of Vol. I of the new Schürer is of such significance
that it is not exceeded in importance by any recent publicati9on
and approached by very few. Schürer is the handbook par excellence
for scholars, who are now in greatest debt to the editors for a
labor of devotion and an achievement of sheer excellence...It is
impossible to overpraise this volume.
*The Classical World*
The editors have rendered a magnificent service to scholarship by
this excellent translation and updating of Schürer's classic.
*The Catholic Biblical Quarterly*
The Vermes-Millar version of Schürer's justly famous history of the
Jewish people in the age of Jesus Christ is a truly monumental
achievement in its well nigh total recasting of the entire work.
The up-to-date bibliographical coverage alone, the wide trawl of
the most recondite sources in many languages, Semitic, Greek, etc.,
and the cautious but firm exercise of judgement will ensure its
authoritative survival deep into the 21st century. The publication
of the eagerly awaited indexes, which places the key to this great
compendium of both reference and literature into the hands of
readers from many disparate disciplines, is bound to be a literary
event of profound significance.
*Professor Edward Ullendorff, F.B.A., Emeritus Professor of Semitic
Languages, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London*
With the completion of this project, the world of scholarship will
possess an indispensable tool for the study of this period, which
is the heyday of Judaism.
*The Jerusalem Post*
This is one of the few indispensable books.
*Journal of Theological Studies*
...it is the opinion of this reviewer that the new Schürer will be
an indispensable resource for future historical work on this
period...
*Religious Studies Review*
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