Vision and Covenant | Gateway 2: Hellenistic Civilization - Second Temple, Mishnah and Talmud
 Gateway 2 / Contents

Part I: Hellenistic Civilization (9th Century BCE - 5th Century AD)

Introduction

 The Classical and Hellenistic Age – Dr Rachel Zelnik-Abramowitz
     
Paradise Lost
 In the Land of the Phaeacians – The Odyssey / Homer
The Secret of Beauty and Love – The Symposium/ Plato

 Longing for the Golden Age – The Metamorphoses/ Ovid
  Birth of the Redeemer – Eclogue IV / Virgil
   

The Ideal State
The Peloponnesian Wars – Thucydides
The Republic – Plato
Politics – Aristotle
*The Histories – Polybius
Lycurgus – Plutarch
   
Part II: The Second Temple, The Age of the Mishnah and Talmud (5th Century BCE – 5th Century AD)
   

Introduction

 * Exile of the Jews and Redemption of the Nations – Dr Michael Mach
   

Heavenly Journeys

    
Apocrypha and
Pseudepigrapha
 The Book of Tobit
The Fourth Book of Ezra
The Book of Enoch

The Midrash

 The Sublime Jerusalem – Bereshit Rabbati
In the Garden of Eden / In the Chamber of Brightness and in the Bird’s Nest
Hekhalot Literature
 Midrash Alpha Beta diRabbi Akiba
The Midrash on “As the Apple-Tree amongst the Trees of the Forest”
*The Divine Chariot
     
Covenant of Vision
   

Dead Sea Scrolls

 The War Scroll
The Community Rule
*The Damascus Document

Midrash

 Love Thy Neighbor
Commandments of the Sons of Noah
     
Destruction and Redemption
    

Jewish Hellenistic Literature

 Destruction of the Temple / Massada – Wars of the Jews / Flavius Josephus
The Return to Zion – Philo of Alexandria

Midrash

 In the Holy of Holies – Tractate Makkot

The Messianic Generation – Tractate Sanhedrin
     
New Testament
 The Gospel According to Matthew
The Gospel According to Mark
The Second Letter of Paul to the Corinthians
The Letter of Paul to the Romans
The Letter of Paul to the Galatians
The Revelation to John
     
The Messiah and the Days to Come
Bar Kochba – Excerpts
The Book of Zerubbabel
Vision of the Messiah – Mysteries of R. Shimon Ben Yohai
*Gog and Magog – Hekhalot Rabbati
     
Hidden and Revealed
 Four Entered the Orchard
Free Will Is Granted

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