Martha Himmelfarb is Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses and Kingdom of Priests: Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism, the latter also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Introduction
Chapter 1. Priest and Scribe: Ancestry and Professional Skill in the Book
of the Watchers, the Wisdom of Ben Sira, and Aramaic Levi
Chapter 2. Jubilees' Kingdom of Priests
Chapter 3. Priesthood and Purity Laws: The Temple Scroll and the Damascus
Document
Chapter 4. Priesthood and Sectarianism: The Rule of the Community, the
Damascus Document, and the Book of Revelation
Chapter 5. Priesthood and Allegory: Philo and Alexandrian Judaism
Chapter 6. "The Children of Abraham Your Friend": The End of Priesthood,
the Rise of Christianity, and the Neutralization of Jewish Sectarianism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments