Common Judaism: Explorations in Second-Temple Judaism

Contents: Common Judaism and diversity within Judaism / Wayne O. McCready and Adele Reinhartz -- Common Judaism explored / E. P. Sanders -- "Common Judaism": the contribution of the ancient synagogue / Lee I. Levine -- Common Judaism, common purity, and the Second Temple period Judean miqwa’ot (ritual immersion baths) / Boaz Zissu and David Amit -- Common Judaism, common synagogue?: purity, holiness, and sacred space at the turn of the Common Era / Susan Haber -- Pharisaic authority: prophecy and power (Antiquities 17.41-45) / Albert I. Baumgarten -- From where? to what?: common Judaism, Pharisees, and the changing socioreligious location of the Matthean community / Anders Runesson -- What do angels have against the blind and the deaf?: rules of exclusion in the Dead Sea scrolls / Cecila Wassen -- The search for the common Judaic understanding of God’s kingship / Anne Moore -- "Torah shall go forth from Zion": common Judaism and the Greek Bible / Tessa Rajak -- Aristeas or haggadah: Talmudic legend and the Greek Bible in Palestinian Judaism / Eliezer Segal -- Whom do you follow?: the Jewish politeia and the Maccabean background of Josephus’s sign prophets / David M. Miller -- Memory in Josephus and the culture of the Jews in the first century / Seth Schwartz -- Epistemology and social conflict in Jubilees and Aristeas / Ian W. Scott