Between Cooperation and Hostility (eBook)

Multiple Identities in Ancient Judaism and the Interaction with Foreign Powers

Rainer Albertz, Jakob Wöhrle (Herausgeber)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
280 Seiten
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress (Verlag)
978-3-647-55051-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The question of why the cooperation of Jews with the Persian and Ptolemaic empires achieved some success and why it failed with regard to the Seleucids and the Romans, even turning into military hostility against them, has not been sufficiently answered. The present volume intends to show, from the perspectives of Hebrew Bible, Judaic, and Ancient History Studies, that the contrasting Jewish attitudes towards foreign powers were not only dependent on specific political circumstances. They were also interrelated with the emergence of multiple early Jewish identities, which all found a basis in the Torah, the prophets, or the psalms.

Rainer Albertz ist em. Professor für Altes Testament an der Universität Münster.

Inhalt

Cover 
1 
Title Page 
4 
Copyright 
5 
Preface 6
Table of Contents 
8 
Body 
14 
Abbreviations 10
Judeans, Jews, and their Neighbors: Jewish Identity in the Second Temple Period. Daniel R. Schwartz 14
Conflicting Models of Identity and the Publication of the Torah in the Persian Period. Thomas Römer 34
Joseph in Egypt: Living under Foreign Rule according to the Joseph Story and its Early Intra- and Extra-Biblical Reception. Jakob Wöhrle 54
The Adversaries in Ezra/Nehemiah – Fictitious or Real? A Case Study in Creating Identity in Late Persian and Hellenistic Times. Sebastian Grätz 74
“Genocide” in the Book of Esther: Cultural Integration and the Right of Resistance against Pogroms. Reinhard Achenbach 90
Are Foreign Rulers Allowed to Enter and Sacrifice in the Jerusalem Temple? Rainer Albertz 116
The Construction of Samari(t)an Identity from the Inside and from the Outside. Stefan Schorch 136
Manifest Identity: From Ioudaios to Jew: Household Judaism as Anti-Hellenization in the Late Hasmonean. Era Andrea M. Berlin 152
Honor and Humiliation as a Factor in Hasmonean Politics according to the Narrator of 1 Maccabees. Doron Mendels 178
From the “Master of the Elephants” to the “Most Ungracious Wretch”: The Image of Foreign Commanders in the Second Book of Maccabees. Johannes Schnocks 206
Seduced by the Enemy or Wise Strategy? The Presentation of Non-Violence and Accommodation with Foreign Powers in Ancient Jewish Literary Sources. Catherine Hezser 222
The High Priests and Rome: Why Cooperation Failed. Kai Trampedach 252
Index of Ancient Sources 268
Index of Authors 278
Back Cover 
282 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.2.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements
• Reihe/Serie: Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements.
• Co-Autor: Reinhard Achenbach, Andrea M. Berlin, Thomas Römer, Johannes Schnocks, Stefan Schorch, Kai Trampedach, Daniel Schwartz, Sebastian Grätz, Catherine Hezser, Doron Mendels
• Zusatzinfo: mit 16 Abb.
• Verlagsort: Göttingen
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: Fremdherrschaft • Frühjudentum • Großmacht • Identität • Israel (Altertum) • Judaistik • Judentum • Politische Einstellung
• ISBN-10: 3-647-55051-5 / 3647550515
• ISBN-13: 978-3-647-55051-0 / 9783647550510