Religious Studies 361: Post-Biblical Judaism: Notes

General Guidelines and Resources

• Guidelines for Research Papers in Religious Studies 361
  
• What's in a Course Name?
  

Notes on E. P. Sanders, Judaism: Practice & Belief--63 BCE-66 CE (London and Philadelphia, 1992)

• Chapter One: Historical Sources
  
• Chapter Two: The Three Parties
  
• Chapter Five: The Temple
  
• Chapter Six: The Priesthood
  
• Chapter Seven: Sacrifices
  
• Chapter Eight: The Festival Calendar
  
• Chapter Eleven: The Synagogue
  
• Chapter Twelve: Purity
  
• Chapter Thirteen: "Common Theology"
  
• Chapter Sixteen: The Essenes
  
• Chapter Eighteen: The Pharisees I
• Chapter Nineteen: The Pharisees II

Additional Topics

• Sadducee positions on halakhic issues
• Josephus' Essenes and the "Community Rule"
  
• Texts on the Festivals
  
• Texts Related to the Shema
  
• The Structure of Daily Prayer