God, Self, and Death : The Shape of Religious Transformation in the Second Temple Period /
Pinette, Shannon Burkes
God, Self, and Death : The Shape of Religious Transformation in the Second Temple Period / The Shape of Religious Transformation in the Second Temple Period Shannon Burkes Pinette. - 1 online resource. - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; 79 . - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; 79. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume considers the emerging Jewish interest in an afterlife during the second temple period in relation to developing views of the deity and the self. In some circles God is understood as increasingly distant from the human sphere, and so justice must occur in another world or after death; at the same time, more autonomous constructions of the self in response to community breakdown suggest that reward and punishment come not only collectively, but also on the individual level in a post-mortem realm. The book traces the interconnections between these themes in Job and Ecclesiastes, Ben Sira and Daniel, then Wisdom of Solomon and 4 Ezra, crossing genre boundaries in an attempt to offer a more encompassing historical investigation.
9789004493803 9789004129542
10.1163/9789004493803 DOI
Bible.--Hagiographa--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 BC-210 AD.
Death in literature.
God in literature.
Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Self in literature.
BS1308
296.3/09/014
God, Self, and Death : The Shape of Religious Transformation in the Second Temple Period / The Shape of Religious Transformation in the Second Temple Period Shannon Burkes Pinette. - 1 online resource. - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; 79 . - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; 79. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume considers the emerging Jewish interest in an afterlife during the second temple period in relation to developing views of the deity and the self. In some circles God is understood as increasingly distant from the human sphere, and so justice must occur in another world or after death; at the same time, more autonomous constructions of the self in response to community breakdown suggest that reward and punishment come not only collectively, but also on the individual level in a post-mortem realm. The book traces the interconnections between these themes in Job and Ecclesiastes, Ben Sira and Daniel, then Wisdom of Solomon and 4 Ezra, crossing genre boundaries in an attempt to offer a more encompassing historical investigation.
9789004493803 9789004129542
10.1163/9789004493803 DOI
Bible.--Hagiographa--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 BC-210 AD.
Death in literature.
God in literature.
Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Self in literature.
BS1308
296.3/09/014