BOOK ON EARLY JUDAISM (from the Agade list):

>From "Cohen, Mark" (cdlpress@erols.com):
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CDL Press and the University Press of Maryland are pleased to
announce the publication of:

Early Judaism: Religious Worlds of the First Judaic Millennium
revised 2nd edition
by Martin S. Jaffee

Volume XIII in the series: Studies in Texts in Jewish History and
Culture, The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies,
University of Maryland.

ISBN: 1883053935; pp. 287.
Price: $29
Includes several color photographs.

Prof. Jaffee discusses the development of religious perspectives of
the various Jewish sects, including earliest Christianity, from
approx. 400 B.C.E. to 600 C.E. In this second edition, parts have
been extensively revised, others have been dropped, and new
material has been added. Also, this edition integrates the
perspectives of gender studies into the interpretive discourse of
the study of Judaism.

To order write to:

CDL Press
PO Box 34454
Bethesda, MD 20827

or fax (253-484-5542) or call (301-762-2066).