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).
God, Self, and Death: The Shape of Religious Transformation in the Second Temple Period (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism),Shannon Burkes,Brill Academic Publishers,9004129545,Bible,Criticism, interpretation, etc,Death in literature,God in literature,Hagiographa,History,Interior Design - General,Judaism,Judaism - General,Judaism - Theology,O.T,Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D,Religion,Religion - Judaism
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