Jonathan Klawans (Associate Profes Associate Professor of Religion

Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism

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Produktbeschreibung

Jonathan Klawans's Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism cuts against the grain of rabbinic studies to establish the value of Flavius Josephus's descriptions of the religious ideas of various Jewish sects for reconstructing the world of ideas (the theologies) at play in early Judaism. It is intended as a response to the prevalent approach to the study of early Judaism, which focuses on legal or halakhic issues rather than matters of religious belief.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9780190646189
• ISBN-10: 0190646187
• Artikelnr.: 47868849

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Klawans is Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University. He is the author of Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism and Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple: Symbolism and Supersessionism in the Study of Ancient Judaism.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Note on Translations and Editions
Chapter 1: Theology, Josephus, and Understandings of Ancient Judaism
Chapter 2: Fate, Free Will and Ancient Jewish Types of Compatibilism
Chapter 3: Afterlives and Noble Deaths
Chapter 4: Torah, Tradition, and Innovation
Chapter 5: Josephus and Judaism after 70 CE
Conclusion
Appendix: Essenes and Resurrection according to Hippolytus
Notes
Bibliography
Index