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NT202 A Survey of Jewish History and Literature from the Second Temple Period
Reading List
Introductory content
History of the Second Temple Period: Persian and Greek Rule
- Overview
- Accessing Second Temple Literature in Logos
- Babylonian Exile
- Persian and Second Temple Period
- Returnees: Zerubbabel and Ezra
- Returnees: Nehemiah and Samaria
- Keeping Track of Second Temple Resources with Favorites
- Alexander the Great and the Rise of Hellenism
- Alexander’s Successors: Seleucids and Ptolemies
- Unit 1 Quiz
History of the Second Temple Period: The Hasmonean Kingdom
History of the Second Temple Period: Jewish Sectarian Groups
- Introduction to Jewish Sectarian Groups
- Studying Jewish Religious Groups in Logos
- Pharisees: The Separate Ones
- Pharisees: Respect for Simple Living, Logic, and the Oral Tradition
- Pharisees: Theological Summary
- Sadducees: Derived from a Priestly Family
- Sadducees: Argumentative and Self-Serving
- Sadducees: Pragmatists, Opportunists, Survivors
- Pharisees and Sadducees in the New Testament
- Essenes: Urban Ascetics
- Essenes: Distinctive Practices
- Essenes: Distinctive Beliefs
- Samaritans
- Unit 3 Quiz
History of the Second Temple Period: The Roman Empire
Corpus of Literature from the Second Temple Period
Midterm Exam
Texts of the Dispersion
- Introduction to Selected Second Temple Texts
- Tobit: An Outline of the Story
- Tobit: Historical and Theological Observations
- Additions to Daniel: Susanna
- Additions to Daniel: Bel and the Dragon
- Additions to Daniel: Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Young Men
- Letter of Jeremiah
- Studying Idolatry in the Apocrypha, Old Testament, and New Testament
- Unit 6 Quiz
Texts Engaging Hellenism
- Introduction to the Enoch Literature, Part 1
- Introduction to the Enoch Literature, Part 2
- Book of the Luminaries: The Schema of the Cosmos
- Book of the Luminaries: Wrong Calendar Yields Wrong Worship
- Book of the Watchers: Disorder Is Evil
- Book of the Watchers: Judgment and Explanations
- Book of the Watchers: Theological Topics
- Wisdom of Ben Sira: Overview
- Wisdom of Ben Sira: Topics Discussed
- Unit 7 Quiz
Apocalyptic Texts
Texts Engaging the Hasmonean Dynasty
Dead Sea Scrolls
Examples of Sectarian Texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Texts of the Egyptian Jewish Diaspora
In the Wake of Herod and the Romans
In the Wake of the First Jewish War
Conclusion
Final exam
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