Excerpt from The Political and the Social Leaders of the Jewish Community of Sepphoris in the Second and Third Centuries The great interest attaching to the history of the Jews in Galilee in the first century is not, and cannot be satisfied by Josephus and the New Testament, the two direct narrative sources at our disposal. Both have as their central objects events which engross their whole attention; and they therefore only very incidentally throw light on important details of the inner life of the community. The ...
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Excerpt from The Political and the Social Leaders of the Jewish Community of Sepphoris in the Second and Third Centuries The great interest attaching to the history of the Jews in Galilee in the first century is not, and cannot be satisfied by Josephus and the New Testament, the two direct narrative sources at our disposal. Both have as their central objects events which engross their whole attention; and they therefore only very incidentally throw light on important details of the inner life of the community. The descriptions in modern writers both of the Galilean Jews and of Galilean Judaism of the first century are indeed vivid and complete 5 but combination and imagination have played far too great a part in their formation. Other information being so scanty, the usefulness and importance of Rabbinic litera ture have been of late increasingly recognized, and single parallels are often quoted, if only as illustrations. It is true that this Rabbinic material deals with or reflects the conditions in Galilee in the first half of the second century at the earliest, and it has been on this ground refused illustrative force for the first century by some scholars. Yet it should readily be admitted that popular belief and religious customs, social conditions and abuses, communal organization and the position of the ruling classes, the average man and the violent noble, were almost, if not wholly, the same in the second and first centuries. And just all these points are fully and fairly clearly illustrated in the Talmudic literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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