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

Burkes Pinette, Shannon

ISBN 10: 9004129545 / ISBN 13: 9789004129542

Published by Brill, 2003

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Text is unmarked; pages are bright. Binding is sturdy. Dust jacket is only minimally worn.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: God, Self, and Death: The Shape of Religious Transformation in the Second Temple Period (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism)
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004129545
• ISBN 13: 9789004129542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Classics
  • Judaica

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Synopsis

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).