What Makes a People? : : Early Jewish Ideas of Peoplehood and Their Evolving Impact /

What Makes a People? : : Early Jewish Ideas of Peoplehood and Their Evolving Impact / / ed. by Dionisio Candido, Renate Egger-Wenzel, Stefan C. Reif.

This set of varied and stimulating papers, by an international group of younger as well as senior scholars, examines the manner in which peoplehood was understood by the Jewish communities of the Second Temple period and by the religious traditions that emerged from those communities and later flour...

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Candido, Dionisio,
Egger-Wenzel, Renate,
Reif, Stefan C.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
©2024
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook , 2022/2023
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 322 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Social Conflicts in the Persian Period: Yehud, Elephantine and Samaria
  • What Makes a People According to Israel’s Wisdom Literature? ἔθνος and ἔθνη in Proverbs, Wisdom of Sirach and Wisdom of Solomon
  • Laos in the First Book of Maccabees: A Hasmonean Perspective in the Context of Limited Statehood
  • Sociology of Ben Sira’s Patriarchal Society: Textual and Papyrological Perspectives
  • Ben Sira’s Catalogue of Generosity (Sir 7:32‒36)
  • “When one is wise to his people’s advantage” (Sir 37:23): Political Intelligence in the Book of Ben Sira
  • Konfrontationen. Die Kontrahenten des Volkes im Buch der Weisheit
  • Die jüdische Lebensweise in den griechischen Versionen des Buches Esther
  • The Identity of “Israel” in the Book of Tobit: How to Create an ethnos?
  • The Heroes of the Book of Tobit as Figures of the Assyrian Diaspora
  • “For we are the sons of the prophets”: The Idea of a People in the Book of Tobit
  • Which Idols? The Criticism of Idolatry in the Epistle of Jeremiah (Bar 6)
  • What Makes a People in the Dead Sea Scrolls?
  • Entangled Jewish Identities in Rome. The Case of “Barbarians” in Philo and Josephus
  • μαθητεύσατε πάντα τὰ ἔθνη (Matt 28:19): Jesus’s Cosmocracy and the Universalization of Discipleship—an “Inclusive” Reading
  • The Mixed Marriage Crisis (Ezra 9‒10, Nehemiah 13), and Its Resonance in Jewish Law and Lore
  • The Notion of the Nation: How Hebrew Terminology Has Adjusted to Changing Circumstances—A Tale of Cultural Semantics
  • List of Contributors
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Modern Authors
  • Index of Sources

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