The Invention of Judaism (eBook)

Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul

John J. Collins (Autor)

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2017
336 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96736-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Most people understand Judaism to be the Torah and the Torah to be Judaism. However, in TheInvention of Judaism, John J. Collins persuasively argues this was not always the case. The Torah became the touchstone for most of Judaism's adherents only in the hands of the rabbis of late antiquity. For 600 years prior, from the Babylonian Exile to the Roman destruction of the Second Temple, there was enormous variation in the way the Torah was understood. Collins provides a comprehensive account of the role of the Torah in ancient Judaism, exploring key moments in its history, beginning with the formation of Deuteronomy and continuing through the Maccabean revolt and the rise of Jewish sectarianism and early Christianity.

Inhalt

Preface
Introduction: Jews, Judeans, and the Maccabean Crisis
1. Deuteronomy and the Invention of the Torah
2. Torah in the Persian Period
3. The Persistence of Non-Mosaic Judaism
4. Torah as Narrative and Wisdom
5. Torah as Law
6. Torah and Apocalypticism
7. The Law in the Diaspora
8. Paul, Torah, and Jewish Identity
Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.2.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Schlagworte: Ancient history • Ancient Judaism • Ancient Rome • Ancient World • Antiquity • Babylon • Christianity • Church history • Cultural History • Deuteronomy • Early Christianity • exile • Global History • Holy Book • international • Jewish Studies • Judaism • Maccabean Revolt • Rabbis • religious books • Religious History • Religious Studies • religious texts • Second Temple • Sectarianism • Torah • World History
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96736-4 / 0520967364
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96736-6 / 9780520967366