Essays on Judaism in the Pre-Hellenistic Period / / Joseph Blenkinsopp.

The essays deal with developments during the period from the liquidation of the Judean state to the conquests of Alexander the Great. This was a critical time in the Near East and the Mediterranean world in general. It marked the end of the great Semitic empires until the rise of Islam in the sevent...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft , 495
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 262 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Overview
  • I. The Theological Politics of Deutero-Isaiah
  • II. Deutero-Isaiah and the Creator God: Yahweh, Ahuramazda, Marduk
  • III. Judaeans, Jews, Children of Abraham
  • IV. Bethel in the Neo-Babylonian and early Achaemenid period
  • V. Temple and Society in Achaemenid Judah
  • VI. The Intellectual World of Judaism in the Pre-Hellenistic Period
  • VII. Was the Pentateuch the constitution of the Jewish ethnos in the Persian period?
  • VIII.Footnotes to the rescript of Artaxerxes in Ezra 7:11–26
  • IX. The Nehemiah Autobiographical Memoir
  • X. Ideology and Utopia in the book of Chronicles
  • XI. The social context of the “Outsider Woman” in Proverbs 1–9
  • XII. Social Roles of Prophets in Early Achaemenid Judah
  • XIII. The sectarian element in early Judaism
  • XIV. Jewish Sectarianism from Ezra to the Hasidim
  • XV. A Case of Benign Imperial Neglect and its Consequences: An Exercize in Virtual History
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • Author Index
  • Biblical Index