Format:
Online-Ressource ( 305 S. )
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9789004210448
,
9789004210271
,
900421027X
Series Statement:
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism Volume 151
Content:
The Roman destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 was a watershed event in the religious, political, and social life of first-century Jews. This book explores the reaction to this event found in Jewish apocalypses and related literature preserved among the Pseudepigrapha (4 Ezra, 2 Baruch, 3 Baruch, 4 Baruch, Sibylline Oracles 4 and 5, and the Apocalypse of Abraham). While keeping the historical context of their composition in mind, the author analyzes the texts with a view to answering the following questions: What do these texts tell us about Jewish attitudes toward the Roman Empire? How did Jews understand the situation in post-70 Judea through the lens of Israel's past, especially the Babylonian sack of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.?
Note:
Fairly substantial revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2006. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-293) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004210271
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jewish Reactions to the Destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70: Apocalypses and Related Pseudepigrapha Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2011 ISBN 9789004210271
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004210448
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