Ancient Judaism

8vo, br, ed. xxvii,484 pp., Translated and edited by Hans H. Gerth and Don Martindale. Contents: Preface; The Natural and Cultural Background of Ancient Judaism: The Social Structure and its Setting; The Gerim and the Ethic of the Patriarchs; The Covenant and Confederacy: The Social Laws of the Israelite Legal Collections; Warfare and War Prophecy; Social Significance of the War God of the Confederacy; Priesthood, Cult, and Ethics: Culthic Peculiarities of Yahwism; Priests and the Cult Monopoly of Jerusalem; Forms of Israelite Intellectuality in the Pro-Prophetic Era; Ethics and Eschatology of Yahwism; Intercultural Relations in Pre-Exilic Ethics; The Establishment of the Jewish Pariah People; The Ethic and Theodicy of the Prophets; The Pariah Community; The Exile; Suplement: The Pharisees: Sects and Cults of the Post-Exile Period; Judaism and Early Christianity. Trans. Hans H. Gerth and Don Martindale. First ed Trade Paperback. Out of Print. Book in very good condition, without dust jacket "According to Weber, the world historical importance of Judaism is not exhausted by the fact that it fathered Christianity and Islamism. It compares in historical significance to Hellenic intellectual culture, Roman law, the Roman Catholic church resting on the Roman concept of office, the medieval estates, and Protestantism." 484 pages ISBN: 0029341302 .