Emil Schürer's Geschichte des judischen Volkes im Zeitalter Jesu Christi; originally published in German between 1874 and 1909 and in English between 1885 and 1891; is a critical presentation of Jewish history; institutions; and literature from 175 B.C. to A.D. 135. It has rendered invaluable services to scholars for nearly a century. The present work offers a fresh translation and a revision of the entire subject-matter. The bibliographies have been rejuvenated and supplemented; the sources are presented according to the latest scholarly editions; and all the new archaeological; epigraphical; numismatic and literary evidence; including the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bar Kokhba documents; has been introduced into the survey. Account has also been taken of the progress in historical research; both in the classical and Jewish fields. This work reminds students of the profound debt owed to nineteenth-century learning; setting it within a wider framework of contemporary knowledge; and provides a foundation on which future historians of Judaism in the age of Jesus may build.
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