God, Self, and Death: The Shape of Religious Transformation in the Second Temple PeriodBRILL, 1 jan. 2003 - 287 sidor 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. |
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Job and Qoheleth | 37 |
Ben Sira and Daniel | 87 |
Wisdom of Solomon and 4 Ezra | 159 |
Conclusion | 235 |
Bibliography | 263 |
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