God, Self, and Death: The Shape of Religious Transformation in the Second Temple Period - Couverture rigide

Burkes Pinette, Shannon

 
9789004129542: God, Self, and Death: The Shape of Religious Transformation in the Second Temple Period
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004129545 ISBN 13 : 9789004129542
Editeur : Brill, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Shannon Burkes, Ph.D. (1997) at the University of Chicago in Hebrew Bible, is Assistant Professor of Religion at Florida State University. Her previous book was Death in Qoheleth and Egyptian Biographies of the Late Period (Scholars Press, 1999).

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004129545
ISBN 13 
9789004129542
Reliure
Cuir/luxe
Nombre de pages
290
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Personne responsable
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