SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR JUDAISM IN THE HELLENISTIC ERA
(ca 300 BCE - 200 CE) R. A. Kraft

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1. GENERAL

1. Bibliographies and Bibliographical Surveys:

2. Collections of Various Sorts (texts, translations):

3. General Reference Works, Series, etc.

4. Overall Treatments: History, Literature, Thought

2. JUDAISM OF A SEMITIC-HELLENISTIC ORIENTATION, ESPECIALLY IN PALESTINE AND MESOPOTAMIA ("Eastern"/"Oriental" Judaism)

1. Primary Sources (not exhaustive)

2. General Modern Treatments

3. Some Particular Aspects

3. JUDAISM OF PRIMARILY GREEK-HELLENISTIC ORIENTATION

1. Primary Sources (not exhaustive)

2. General Treatments (see further Delling 227ff.)

3. Some Particular Aspects (see Delling #227ff.)


4. SOME SPECIAL TOPICS (see further Delling, passim).

1. Art (see Delling, #502ff.; and esp. SYMBOLS).

2. Chronology, Chronography

3. Eschatology and Apocalyptic Literature (Delling 1858ff.)

4. Ethics and Theology

5. Gnosticism and Judaism

6. Magic (see Delling, 2212 ff.)

7. Pagan Attitudes to Judaism (see Delling, #547ff.; and esp. REINACH now superceded by STERN).

8. Synagogues and Worship

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