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THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
IN THE AGE OF JESUS CHRIST
LON DON • N E W DE L H I • N E W YOR K • SY DN EY
 Bloomsbury T&T Clark
An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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First published 1973

This edition © Bloomsbury T&T Clark 2014

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or

transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including
photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system,
without prior permission in writing from the publishers.

No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on

or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be
accepted by Bloomsbury or the author.

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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN: PB:   978-0-5670-7024-1

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The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ: Volume 1/
Emil Schürer
p.cm.
Includes bibliographic references and index.
ISBN 978-0-5670-7024-1 (pbk.)
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 Preface to the Paperback Edition

It is a great pleasure for those responsible for the new English edition
of great work of Emil Schürer (1844–1910) to find that it is still useful for
students of Jewish history in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and is
being published now in paperback. The project has a long and interesting
history, starting from the work of a major Protestant theologian, who
published in 1874 his Lehrbuch der Neutestamentlichen Zeitgeschichte
(‘Textbook of the History of the New Testament Age’). It was thus not, in
origin, a work of Jewish History as such, but sprang from profound learning
in Classical studies and Ancient History, and was conceived of explicitly
as exploring the context of the New Testament for students. Successive
editions, discussed below, have faithfully kept to this orientation, which is
perhaps most clearly indicated by the fact that the evidence for all sources,
literary and documentary, is set out with great thoroughness and clarity – but
not that for the New Testament itself, though the Gospels, Acts and Letters
represent extremely important evidence not only for Judaea but also for the
first-century Diaspora. Nor indeed did this Lehrbuch, or any later versions of
it treat as ‘sources’ those Old Testament books, such as Ecclesiasticus (Ben
Sira) or Daniel, which were composed in the mid-Hellenistic period and are
extremely relevant to the age of the Maccabees. Thus the book, even in its
present edition, looks in from the wider environment at the New Testament
context, rather than using the evidence of the New Testament itself.
Emil Schürer himself of course came to this field from Christian theology,
but to an extraordinary degree was able to command all the different types
of evidence, from literature to inscriptions and coins. He also provided an
extremely clear and well-organised guide to the most relevant rabbinic
material, notably the Mishnah, which was composed in Hebrew in, as it
seems, the early third century. But the book remained, as in its time it could
only have remained, a work based on sources in Greek and Latin, whether
written by non-Jewish authors or by Jewish ones, above all Josephus and
Philo.
This structure remained the same through successive German editions
published by Schürer during his lifetime, in the course of which a new title
appeared, Geschichte des Jüdischen Volkes im Zeitalter Jesu Christi (History
of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ), which retained the focus
v
vi Preface to the Paperback Edition

on ‘Christian Origins’, but claimed a wider role as a work of history. This

English title was thus that of the translation published in 1885–1891 by the
long-established Scottish theological publishing house, T. and T. Clark, in
Edinburgh.
It was this same publishing house which in the 1960s undertook the project
for a new edition, initially promoted and organised by a distinguished Scottish
theologian and Biblical scholar, the late Professor Matthew Black. As the
planning progressed, however, it became clear, first, that the accumulation
of new material, especially after the Second World War, meant both that a
radical revision, correction and supplementation of the text (rather than the
addition of supplementary notes at the end) was going to be required; and
secondly that a major role would have to be played by scholars whose work
covered a wider range of material: above all the Dead Sea Scrolls on the
one hand, and the vast accumulation of inscriptions, coins and papyri on
the other.
This was a formidable task, in which, along with Matthew Black, the major
burden was taken on first by Geza Vermes and then, for the Graeco-Roman
material, by Fergus Millar, and finally by Martin Goodman, dealing with
Jewish literature written in Greek. Very significant parts were played also by
Tessa Rajak, on Josephus, by Jenny Morris, on Philo, by Philip Alexander,
on rabbinic literature and on incantations and books of magic, and by Robert
Hayward, on the Fourth Philosophy, the Sicarii and the Zealots. The late
Léonie Archer was responsible for composing the Index in vol. III.2, a task
of immense difficulty, involving a very early use of the computer.
Work began in 1969, and the first volume came out in 1973, while the last
(III.2) appeared only in 1987, which illustrates all too clearly how laborious
the task was. In fact, looking back, it could not have been achieved at all
without the contribution of the late Pamela Vermes in turning all the drafts
and corrections into a readable text, while using (as is now difficult to
remember, or even imagine) a typewriter.
Apart from advances in the accumulation and organisation of new
material, we can see now, looking back, that what was fundamentally new
about ‘the new Schürer’ was that for the first time it was possible to deploy
both literary texts and documents in Hebrew or Aramaic which were not only
internal to Judaism (as opposed to reflections or reports of it in Christian or
pagan sources), but were, as texts, directly contemporary with the events
discussed. By this I mean first of all the ‘Dead Sea Scrolls’ produced by the
sectarian Jewish community established at Qumran. So the chapter by Geza
Vermes in vol. III.1, ‘Jewish Literature Composed in Hebrew or Aramaic’,
represents the first systematic presentation of this literature in which, in the
discussion of different genres, the texts from Qumran are integrated with the
evidence on Jewish literature derived from other sources.
The dramatic discoveries made in the Judaean Desert in recent decades
have not been confined to the ‘Dead Sea Scrolls’, but include a range
 Preface to the Paperback Edition vii

of ordinary-life documents in Hebrew, Aramaic, Nabataean and Greek

deriving from before the outbreak of the first Jewish revolt in 66; from the
independent Jewish regime which lasted from then until 73 or 74; from the
period between the two revolts; and above all from the Bar Kokhba war
of 132–135. Here, it should be made clear, the ‘new Schürer’ represented,
and could only have represented, no more than a start, with substantial use
being made, for example, of those Bar Kokhba documents which were then
known. The Appendix in vol. I, ‘The History of the Nabataean Kings’ also
offers an initial survey of what we could then know of this neighbouring
community, which was also bilingual in Greek and a branch of Aramaic,
and is now illuminated by major new papyri in Nabataean Aramaic. There
is a real sense, therefore, in which the project for a new and revised English
version of Schürer’s History marked the moment when the possibility of
a new, internal, history of the Jewish community, and of Judaism in the
Graeco-Roman period, first opened up.
In the nature of the case, therefore, and in the light of very extensive new
discoveries in the last half-century, the History as it now is, re-published in
paperback, represents only a first step. But, like the ‘old Schürer’ itself, which
was marked by an extraordinary accuracy and precision, making it possible
to see just where new items of evidence belonged, the ‘new Schürer’ can
reasonably be seen as still offering a framework within which new material
can be integrated. In other words, as we firmly believe, it can still play an
essential role in our understanding of a crucial period in world history. One
day, certainly, there could be, and should be, another version, which could
foster yet a further stage in our understanding. With the acquisition of T.
and T. Clark, first by Continuum, and now by one of the most important
contemporary publishing-houses, Bloomsbury, it is perhaps time to look
forward to a possible new edition. But, as our experience of two decades
of work all too clearly proved, this would be a long and demanding task,
requiring substantial resources. In the mean time the ‘new Schürer’ still has
a major role to play in providing a platform for further work.
Geza Vermes
Fergus Millar
Martin Goodman

Oxford,
November 2012

When the three editors of Schürer’s History put this Preface together, Geza
Vermes, the key figure in the creation of the new English edition, was 88,
and suffering from cancer. He remained full of energy, however, continuing
to write until four days before his death on May 8, 2013. He has left many
different legacies, but we feel confident that this paperback edition will be a
worthy testimony to his life and work.
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