Late Judaism

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As late Judaism was in the science of history and theology that Judaism in the period from 200 BC. Until around 200 AD.

The research of the 21st century practically no longer uses the term, as it "suggests that this is an epoch that is coming to an end and that the 'baton' has finally passed from Judaism to Christianity in the course of salvation history". Today the history of the Jews of this period is classified more in the biblical period and late antiquity or, more precisely, seen as part of the Hellenistic-Roman epoch, which begins with the conquest of Jerusalem by Alexander the great (332 BC) and in the The rabbinical epoch culminates in the post-biblical writings of Judaism (around 70 AD).

Individual evidence

  1. Quote from Brief Introduction to Early Judaism on the website of the University of Leipzig