God, Self, and Death: The Shape of Religious Transformation in the Second Temple Period (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism)

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God, Self, and Death: The Shape of Religious Transformation in the Second Temple Period (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism)

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Book Description
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.

About the Author
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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Book Contents:

  1. Greek Vases: Images, Contexts and Controversies: Proceedings of the Conference Sponsored by the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University, ... Studies in the Classical Tradition)
  2. Habakkuk, 1992 (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum)
  3. Habitable Spaces
  4. Helios Megistos: Zur Synkretistischen Theologie Der Spatantike (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World)
  5. Historiography in the Middle Ages
  6. Home Makeovers in an Instant (Practical Handbooks)
  7. Hugo Grotius As Apologist for the Christian Religion: A Study of His Work De Veritate Religionis Christianae, 1640 (Studies in the History of Christian Thought)
  8. Isis Und Ihre Dienerinnen in Der Kunst Der Romischen Kaiserzeit (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)
  9. Israel in Exile: The History and Literature of the Sixth Century B.C.E (Studies in Biblical Literature (Society of Biblical Literature), 3.)
  10. Iter Italicum: A Cumulative Index to Volumes 1-IV

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