Beginnings of Judaism

Part 1. Lecture 1. The beginnings of Judaism

Biblical roots

Lecture 2. New challenges in the late biblical period

Lecture 3. Jews under Persian rule

the return to Zion

Lecture 4. The challenge of Hellenism

Lecture 5. The Maccabees

from rebels to kings

Lecture 6. The canonization of the Hebrew Bible

Lecture 7. Translating the Bible

the Septuagint

Lecture 8. Adding to the Bible

the Apocrypha

Lecture 9. Tobit

a new path of righteousness

Lecture 10. Retelling the Bible

the book of Jubilees

Lecture 11. Revealing the unknown

Lecture 12. "Judaism" or "Judaisms"?

Part 2. Lecture 13. Sectarianism

Pharisees and Sadducees

Lecture 14. Out of the caves

discovery at Qumran

Lecture 15. The end of days

Messianic eschatology

Lecture 16. Other lands, other Jews

the Diaspora

Lecture 17. Judaism in the Hellenistic world

Lecture 18. Changing God's address

temple to synagogue

Lecture 19. Rome arrives in Jerusalem

Lecture 20. Parting with the temple

Lecture 21. From Jerusalem to Yavne

Rabbinic Judaism

Lecture 22. The shaping of Rabbinic Judaism

Lecture 23. A violent epilogue

Bar Kokhba

Lecture 24. From "Roots" to "Tree."