ISBN:
9789004493803
,
9789004129542
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Year of publication:
2003
Series Statement:
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
Series Statement:
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 79
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als God, Self, and Death : The Shape of Religious Transformation in the Second Temple Period
Keywords:
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 BC-210 AD
;
Death in literature
;
God in literature
;
Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
;
Self in literature
Abstract:
This volume considers the emerging Jewish interest in an afterlife during the second temple period in relation to developing views of the deity and the self. In some circles God is understood as increasingly distant from the human sphere, and so justice must occur in another world or after death; at the same time, more autonomous constructions of the self in response to community breakdown suggest that reward and punishment come not only collectively, but also on the individual level in a post-mortem realm. The book traces the interconnections between these themes in Job and Ecclesiastes, Ben Sira and Daniel, then Wisdom of Solomon and 4 Ezra, crossing genre boundaries in an attempt to offer a more encompassing historical investigation
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789004493803
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