Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. viii, 344 pages; 25 cm

Subject

1. Bibel
2. Bible > Theology
3. To 70
4. Judaism > History > To 70 A.D
5. 11.41 study and interpretation of the Old Testament
6. Judaism
7. Religion
8. Oude Testament
9. Jodendom
10. Judaism > History

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Preliminary remarks -- The sources -- Origin of religion -- Historical events leading to the covenant -- The God of the covenant -- The people of the covenant -- Conditions of the covenant, the Decalogue -- The words of the covenant -- The oldest legislation -- The sanctuary -- The religion in the period of the Judges -- David -- Solomon -- Cult and law in the temple of Jerusalem -- The religion of Jahu in N-Isr -- Jahuisim in the Assyrian period -- Religious life -- Religious tradition in the pre-exilic period -- Prophecy and voices -- Amos -- Hosea -- Isaiah -- Micah -- Prophets in the 7th Cent. -- Jonah -- Joel -- Nahum.
2. Zephaniah -- Habakkuk -- Jeremiah -- Ezekiel -- The turning-point -- Deutero-Isaiah -- Zechariah I-VIII -- Haggai -- The Aramaic Daniel -- The new temple -- Ezra and Nehemiah -- Judah in the Persian and Greek periods -- From the Maccabees to 70 A.D. -- The feasts in the post-exilic period -- Temples of Jahu in Egypt -- The Synagogues -- The books of wisdom -- Proverbs -- Job -- Ecclesiastes -- God and the invisible world -- Magic -- Religion and ethics -- The position of men -- The sects -- Expectations -- The essence of the religion -- Index of subjects -- Index of chapters and of some relevant texts.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. "Appears as a second edition of De Godsdienst van Israel ... and at the same time as a new treatment of the same subject."