ISBN:
9780300262964
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (288 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
Year of publication:
2021
Series Statement:
The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Newsom, Carol Ann, 1950 - The spirit within me
Keywords:
Self Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Judaism History Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
;
Agent (Philosophy) History To 1500
;
Self History To 1500
;
Self History To 1500
;
RELIGION / Judaism / History
;
Israel
;
Frühjudentum
;
Selbst
Abstract:
The first full-length study of the evolution of self and agency in ancient Israelite anthropology Conceptions of “the self” have received significant recent attention in philosophy, anthropology, and cultural history. Scholars argue that the introspective self of the modern West is a distinctive phenomenon that cannot be projected back onto the cultures of antiquity. While acknowledging such difference is vital, it can lead to an inaccurate flattening of the ancient self. In this study, Carol A. Newsom explores the assumptions that govern ancient Israelite views of the self and its moral agency before the fall of Judah, as well as striking developments during the Second Temple period. She demonstrates how the collective trauma of the destruction of the Temple catalyzed changes in the experience of the self in Israelite literature, including first‑person-singular prayers, notions of self‑alienation, and emerging understandings of a defective heart and will. Examining novel forms of spirituality as well as sectarian texts, Newsom chronicles the evolving inward gaze in ancient Israelite literature, unveiling how introspection in Second Temple Judaism both parallels and differs from forms of introspective selfhood in Greco‑Roman cultures
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300262964
