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Ancient Judaism
Max Weber
Don Martindale (Editor) Hans H. Gerth (Translator)

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Format: Paperback, 484pp.
ISBN: 0029341302
Publisher: Free Press
Pub. Date: June 1962

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The essays on Ancient Judaism appeared between 1917 and 1919. They represent decades of study of Mediterranean antiquity and the great world religions. 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.

New relations are perceived between old facts when Weber brings the varied talents of jurist, economist, historian, linguist and philosopher to the task of integration.

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"No one who has occupied himself with the study of Israelite culture can fail to admire the great sweep, the prevailing accuracy, and the true sensitivity of Weber's sociological analysis"

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Polymathic and enormously influential, Max Weber is known among other things for his analysis of modernity as a process of rationalization and disenchantment, and for his "realist" emphasis on the charismatic nature of political leadership.

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	Preface
PART I	THE NATURAL AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF ANCIENT JUDAISM
I	*The Social Structure and Its Setting*
1	Prefatory Note: the Sociological Problem of Judaic Religious History
2	General historical and Climatic Conditions
3	The Bedouins
4	The Cities and the Gibborim
5	The Israelite Peasant
II	*The Gerim and the Ethic of the Patriarchs*
1	The Plebeian Strata
2	The Pre-Exilic Metic
3	Herdsman and Peasant
4	The Ethic in the Time of the Patriarchs
PART I	THE COVENANT AND CONFEDERACY
III	*The Social Laws of the Israelite Legal Collections*
1	The Laws as an Index to Social Development
2	Social Law of the Israelite Collections
3	The Berith
4	The Yahwe Confederacy and its Organs
IV	*Warfare and War Prophecy*
1	Holy War, Circumcision, Nazarites
2	The Nebiim
3	Nabi Ecstacy and Prophecy
4	Changing Forms of Prophecy
V	*Social Significance of the War God of the Confederacy*
1	Uniqueness of the Relation of Israel to its God
2	The Nature of the War God
3	Social Reception of the War God
4	Non-Yahwistic Cults
PART III	PRIESTHOOD, CULT, AND ETHICS
VI	*Cultic Peculiarities of Yahwism*
1	The Sabbath
2	Baal and Yahwe: The Idols and the Ark
3	Sacrafice and Expiation
VII	*Priests and the Cult Monopoly of Jerusalem*
1	The Levites and the Torah
2	The Development of the Priesthood and the Cult Monopoly of Jerusalem
3	The Fight of Yahwism against Orgiasticism
VIII	*Forms of Israelite Intellectuality in the Pre-Prophetic Era*
1	The Israelite Intellectuals and the Neighboring Cultures
2	Mesopotamian Culture Relations
3	The Yahwistic and Elohistic Intellectual Traditions
IX	*Ethics and Eschatology of Yahwism*
1	Magic and Ethics
2	Mythologies and Eschatologies
X	*Intercultural Relations in Pre-Exilic Ethics*
1	Substantive Content of Jewish Ethics
2	The Ethic of the Decalogues and the Book of the Dead
3	Economic Ethic
4	Charity
PART IV	THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE JEWISH PARIAH PEOPLE
XI	*Social Psychology of the Prophets*
1	Political Orientations of Pre-Exilic Prophecy
2	Hellenic and Judaic Prophecy
3.	Established Authority versus the Prophets
4	Status Orientations and Inner-Political Attitudes
5	Social Context of the Prophetic Message
6	Psychological Peculiarities of the Prophets
XII	*The Ethic and Theodicy of the Prophets*
1	The Prophetic Ethic
2	The Eschatology and Prophets
XIII	*The Pariah Community*
1	The Development of Ritualistic Exiles
2	The Dualism of In-Group and Out-Group Morality
XIV	*The Exile*
1	Babylonian and Egyptian Exiles
2	Ezekiel and Deutero-Isaiah
3	The Priests and the Confessional Restoration after the Exile
PART V	SUPPLEMENT: THE PHARISEES
XV	*Sects and Cults of the Post-Exile Period*
1	Pharisaism as Sect Religiosity
2	The Rabbis
3	Teaching and Ethic of Pharisaical Judaism
XVI	*Judaism and Early Christianity*
1	Essenism in Relation to the Teachings of Jesus
2	Increasing Ritualistic Segregation of the Jews
3	Proselytism in the Diaspora
4	Propaganda of the Christian Apostles
	Notes
	Map, Location of Historic Places
	Glossary and Index 1. Subjects 2. Persons 3. Places and Countries

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