The idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism : a new theory of people, exile, and Israelite identity / Jason A. Staples.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Staples, Jason A., 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

Judaism.

History.

Judaism--Post-exilic period (Judaism).

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Israel (Christian theology).

Jews--Restoration.

Eschatology, Jewish.

Israel and the diaspora.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Relations.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 426 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

In this book, Jason A. Staples proposes a new paradigm for how the biblical concept of Israel developed in Early Judaism and how that concept impacted Jewish apocalyptic hopes for restoration after the Babylonian Exile. Challenging conventional assumptions about Israelite identity in antiquity, his argument is based on a close analysis of a vast corpus of biblical and other early Jewish literature and material evidence. Staples demonstrates that continued aspirations for Israel's restoration in the context of diaspora and imperial domination remained central to Jewish conceptions of Israelite identity throughout the final centuries before Christianity and even into the early part of the Common Era. He also shows that Israelite identity was more diverse in antiquity than is typically appreciated in modern scholarship. His book lays the groundwork for a better understanding of the so-called 'parting of the ways' between Judaism and Christianity and how earliest Christianity itself grew out of hopes for Israel's restoration.

Contents:

Jews and Israelites in antiquity : the need for a new paradigm

The other Israelites : Samaritans, Hebrews, and non-Jewish Israel

Judah's bible and the narrative construction of biblical Israel

Between disaster and restoration : the prophets, exile, and restoration eschatology

The restoration of Israel in the Persian and Hellenistic periods : incomplete, delayed, failed

Exile and diaspora theology

Israel, Jews, and restoration eschatology in Josephus

Israel and restoration in Philo of Alexandria

Exile and Israel's restoration in the Dead Sea scrolls

Israel, Jews, and restoration in other second temple narrative literature

Israel in second temple eschatological and apocalyptic literature

Israel, Hebrews, Jews, and restoration eschatology.

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ISBN:

9781108906524

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