TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pinette,Shannon Burkes
TI  - God, Self, and Death: The Shape of Religious Transformation in the Second Temple Period 
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789004493803
AV  - BS1308 
U1  - 296.3/09/014 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Bible
KW  - Hagiographa
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Judaism
KW  - History
KW  - Post-exilic period, 586 BC-210 AD
KW  - Death in literature
KW  - God in literature
KW  - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
KW  - Self in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004493803
ER  -