Jason A. Staples

The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism

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Produktbeschreibung

Aimed at scholars and laypersons interested in the Bible and the foundational concepts of Judaism and Christianity, this book offers a new paradigm for how the biblical concept of Israel developed in Early Judaism and how that concept impacted Jewish apocalyptic hopes for restoration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 752g
• ISBN-13: 9781108842860
• ISBN-10: 1108842860
• Artikelnr.: 60555155

Autorenporträt

Jason A. Staples is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. He is a 2008 recipient of at the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship and the author of numerous articles on ancient Judaism and early Christianity.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: investigating the idea of Israel
Part I. Israel's Disputed Birthright: 1. Jews and Israelites in antiquity: the need for a new paradigm
2. The other Israelites: Samaritans, Hebrews, and non-Jewish Israel
Part II. Restoration Eschatology and the Construction of Biblical Israel: 3. Judah's bible and the narrative construction of biblical Israel
4. Between disaster and restoration: the prophets, exile, and restoration eschatology
5. The restoration of Israel in the Persian and Hellenistic periods: incomplete, delayed, failed
Part III. Israel and Restoration Eschatology in the Diaspora: 6. Exile and Diaspora theology
7. Israel, Jews, and restoration eschatology in Josephus
8. Israel and restoration in Philo of Alexandria
9. Exile and Israel's restoration in the dead sea scrolls
10. Israel, Jews, and restoration in other second temple narrative literature
11. Israel in second temple eschatological and apocalyptic literature
12. Israel, Hebrews, Jews, and restoration eschatology
Bibliography
Index of primary sources
General index.