ISBN:
9789004383647
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 372 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2018
Series Statement:
Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism volume 189
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Keddie, Anthony Revelations of ideology
Keywords:
Apocalyptic literature History and criticism
;
Jews History 168 B.C.-135 A.D
;
Jews History To 1500
;
Christians History To 1500
;
Apocalyptic literature History and criticism
;
Christians Palestine
;
History
;
To 1500
;
Jews History
;
168 B.C.-135 A.D.
;
Jews Palestine
;
History
;
To 1500
;
Palestine History
;
To 70 A.D.
;
Judentum
;
Frühchristentum
;
Apokalyptik
;
Apokryphen
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Geschichte 63 v. Chr.-70
Abstract:
"In Revelations of Ideology, G. Anthony Keddie proposes a new theory of the social function of Judaean apocalyptic texts produced in Early Roman Palestine (63 BCE-70 CE). In contrast to evaluations of Jewish and early Christian apocalyptic texts as "literature of the oppressed" or literature of resistance against empire, Keddie demonstrates that scribes produced apocalyptic texts to advance ideologies aimed at self-legitimation. By revealing that their opponents constituted an exploitative class, scribes generated apocalyptic ideologies that situated them in the same exploited class as their constituents. Through careful historical and ideological criticism of the Psalms of Solomon, Parables of Enoch, Testament of Moses, and Q source, Keddie identifies an internally diverse tradition of apocalyptic class rhetoric in late Second Temple Judaism" ...
DOI:
10.1163/9789004383647
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