Second Temple studies III : studies in politics, class, and material culture / edited by Philip R. Davies and John M. Halligan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The material culture of the Persian period and the sociology of the Second Temple period / Kenneth Hoglund -- A tale of three cities : urban gates, squares and power in Iron Age II, Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Judah / John W. Wright -- The Jews and Hellenization : Hengel and his critics / Lester L. Grabbe -- The material culture of the Seleucid period in Palestine : social and economic observations / Kenneth Hoglund -- Ben Sira and the sociology of the Second Temple / Richard A. Horsley and Patrick Tiller -- Conflicting ideologies concerning the Second Temple / John M. Halligan -- Jewish education in the Seleucid period / Robert Doran -- The expansion of Hasmonean rule in Idumea and Galilee : toward a historical sociology / Richard A. Horsley -- The origin, expansion and impact of the Hasmoneans in light of comparative ethnographic studies (and outside of its nineteenth-century context) / James Pasto -- Betwixt and between : the Samaritans in the Hasmonean period / Lester L. Grabbe.

This volume offers a systematic approach to the Persian, Ptolemaic, Seleucid and Hasmonean period, correlating social contexts with the biblical and post-biblical literature that each period generated. The list of contributors includes many of the pioneers of the field of Second Temple sociology, including Kenneth Hoglund, John Wright, Lester Grabbe, Richard Horsley, James Pasto, Robert Doran and the editors. The volume, which also includes an introductory essay on the methods and outcomes of this kind of exercise, furnishes an excellent introduction to the agenda of interpreting biblical text.

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