Daniel R. Schwartz is a professor in the Department of the History of the Jewish People and Contemporary Jewry and the academic director of the Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• IntroductionI. Judean Historiography vs. Jewish Historiography: The First and Second Books of MaccabeesII. Priestly Judaism vs. Rabbinic JudaismIII. From Joseph b. Mattathias, a Priest of Judea, to Flavius Josephus, a Jew of RomeIV. Judeans, Jews, and the Era that Disappeared: On Heinrich Graetz’s Evolving Treatment of the Second Temple PeriodConclusionAppendix: May We Speak of “Religion” and “Judaism” in the Second Temple Period?

Daniel R. Schwartz is a professor in the Department of the History of the Jewish People and Contemporary Jewry and the academic director of the Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• IntroductionI. Judean Historiography vs. Jewish Historiography: The First and Second Books of MaccabeesII. Priestly Judaism vs. Rabbinic JudaismIII. From Joseph b. Mattathias, a Priest of Judea, to Flavius Josephus, a Jew of RomeIV. Judeans, Jews, and the Era that Disappeared: On Heinrich Graetz’s Evolving Treatment of the Second Temple PeriodConclusionAppendix: May We Speak of “Religion” and “Judaism” in the Second Temple Period?

Daniel R. Schwartz is a professor in the Department of the History of the Jewish People and Contemporary Jewry and the academic director of the Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• IntroductionI. Judean Historiography vs. Jewish Historiography: The First and Second Books of MaccabeesII. Priestly Judaism vs. Rabbinic JudaismIII. From Joseph b. Mattathias, a Priest of Judea, to Flavius Josephus, a Jew of RomeIV. Judeans, Jews, and the Era that Disappeared: On Heinrich Graetz’s Evolving Treatment of the Second Temple PeriodConclusionAppendix: May We Speak of “Religion” and “Judaism” in the Second Temple Period?