Between Cooperation and Hostility

Multiple Identities in Ancient Judaism and the Interaction with Foreign Powers

280 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements (JAJ.S)
• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Religion, allgemein
• ISBN: 9783525550519
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.02.2013
• Größe: 23.7 x 16 cm
• Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Herausgegeben von: Rainer Albertz
• Herausgegeben von: Reinhard Achenbach, Andrea M. Berlin, Sebastian Grätz, Catherine Hezser, Doron Mendels, Thomas Römer, Johannes Schnocks, Stefan Schorch, Daniel Schwartz, Kai Trampedach, Jakob Wöhrle