Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel
Angaben zur Quelle:
9,4 (2020) 370-397
Keywords:
Bible. Influence
;
Jews History To 70 A.D.
;
Jews History 586 B.C.-70 A.D.
;
Jews History To 600
;
Judaism History of doctrines To 70 A.D.
;
Jerusalem (Israel) In Judaism
Abstract:
The first historical attestation of the wide acceptance and development of the ideological concept of a (Jerusalem-centred) tōrâ-centred Israel outside Judah occurs in Ptolemaic Egypt. Socio-demographic features of the Judean migration to Egypt in the aftermath of the Greco-Macedonian conquest and historical contingencies in Ptolemaic Egypt facilitated the socio-cultural processes that led to this outcome. This essay opens a conversation on how and why the concept of tōrâ-centred Israel, which was rooted in the late Persian period among Yehud's Jerusalem-centred literati, extended beyond its traditional circles and spread beyond its borders.
DOI:
10.1628/hebai-2020-0024
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