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Author Newman, Hillel.

Title Proximity to power and Jewish sectarian groups of the ancient period : a review of lifestyle, values, and halakhah in the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and Qumran / by Hillel Newman ; edited by Ruth Ludlam.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 332 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Brill reference library of Judaism, 1571-5000 ; v. 25
Brill reference library of Judaism ; v. 25. 1571-5000
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-318) and index.
Contents ""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND SOURCES""; ""CHAPTER ONE TERMINOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY""; ""1.1 Terminology""; ""1.2 Methodology""; ""CHAPTER TWO JEWISH GROUPS1 IN THE HASMONEAN PERIOD AND THEIR PROXIMITY TO THE REGIME""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 The Pharisees""; ""2.3 The Sadducees""; ""2.4 The Essenes""; ""2.5 The Qumran Group""; ""2.6 The Distinction between Groups According to Involvement in the Center""; ""CHAPTER THREE SECEDING GROUPS AND DISSENTING GROUPS: LIFESTYLE""; ""3.1 Communal Eating as a Sectarian Feature""
""3.2 Clothing110 as a Sectarian Characteristic""""3.3 The Family as a Sectarian Characteristic""; ""Conclusions: Seceding Groups and Dissenting Groups on Family Life""; ""CHAPTER FOUR SECEDING GROUPS AND DISSENTING GROUPS: HALAKHIC SYSTEM""; ""4.1 The Place of Halakhah in the Lives of the Jewish Groups""; ""4.2 The Halakhic System of the Dissenting Groups ""; ""4.3 The Halakhic System of the Seceding Groups""; ""CHAPTER FIVE SECEDING GROUPS AND DISSENTING GROUPS: THEOLOGY AND IDEOLOGY""; ""5.1. Theological and Ideological Characteristics in Research""
""5.2. The Importance of Continuing Prophecy in a Group�s Leadership""""5.3. Prophetic Ability in the Lives of the Seceding Groups""; ""5.4. The Prophetic Aspect among the Dissenting Groups""; ""5.5. Continuing Prophecy among the Jewish Groups""; ""5.6. The Status of Earthly Life in the Spiritual System""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES""
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Subject Jews -- Politics and government -- To 70 A.D.
Jews -- Politics and government.
Chronological Term To 70 A.D
Subject Jews -- Social conditions.
Jews -- Social conditions.
Power (Social sciences) -- Palestine -- History -- To 1500.
Power (Social sciences)
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Pharisees.
Pharisees.
Sadducees.
Sadducees.
Essenes.
Essenes.
Qumran community.
Qumran community.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Ludlam, Ruth M.
Other Form: Print version: Newman, Hillel. Proximity to power and Jewish sectarian groups of the ancient period. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006 9004146997 9789004146990 (DLC) 2006049124 (OCoLC)70673317
ISBN 9789047408352 (electronic book)
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9789004146990