Creation, covenant, and the beginnings of Judaism : reconceiving historical time in the Second Temple period /

This study examines the relationship between time and history in Second Temple literature. Numerous sources from that period express a belief that Jewish history began with an act of covenant formation and proceeded in linear fashion until the exile, an unprecedented event which severed the present...

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Main Author: Mermelstein, Ari.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 168.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287389.

Subjects:

Bible. > Ecclesiasticus.

586 B.C. - 210 A.D.

Apocryphal books (Old Testament) > Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Time > Religious aspects > Judaism.