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<\/a> $\"\"$ I am grateful to Eerdmans for sending me a free review copy of The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/i>. A dictionary is particularly hard to review, and so no futile attempt will be made here to do justice to the full range of contents and contributors. Among those most directly related to my research interests I may perhaps note that there are articles on \u201cmonotheism\u201d and \u201cmediator figures\u201d by Larry W. Hurtado, an entry on \u201cJesus of Nazareth\u201d by E. P. Sanders, and one on the \u201cJesus movement\u201d by James D. G. Dunn. These latter entries indicate one particularly interesting and useful aspect of the volume, its treatment of early Christianity as a Jewish phenomenon, within the wider spectrum of early Judaism. The same can also be said of the volume\u2019s treatment of Gnosticism.<\/p>\n

The volume begins with major essays introducing and giving an overview of early Judaism, the history of the period, religion in both Palestine and the Diaspora, Scripture and its interpretation, other Jewish literature, and Jewish relations to other peoples and religious traditions.<\/p>\n

Having sought to use my own research interests as a way of narrowing in attention on specific articles and contents, the one thing that puzzled me was the lack of entries for \u201cGod,\u201d \u201cdivine name\u201d and\/or \u201ctetragrammaton.\u201d <\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the contents are fairly comprehensive, and both alphabetical and topical lists of entries enable one to find what one needs fairly easily. No reference volume can cover everything, and what is included in this volume manages to be both representative and comprehensive, providing both perspectives on both the big picture and individual details. This is an important reference volume for educational institutions and individual scholars to include on their shelves.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"