Between cooperation and hostility : : multiple identities in ancient Judaism and the interaction with foreign powers / / Rainer Albertz/Jakob Wohrle (ed.).

• Superior document: Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements ; vol. 11
• TeilnehmendeR: Albertz, Rainer, 1943-; Wohrle, Jakob.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements ; vol. 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The question of why the cooperation of Jews with the Persian and Ptolemaic empires achieved some success and why it failed with regard to the Seleucids and the Romans, even turning into military hostility against them, has not been sufficiently answered. The present volume intends to show, from the perspectives of Hebrew Bible, Judaic, and Ancient History Studies, that the contrasting Jewish attitudes towards foreign powers were not only dependent on specific political circumstances. They were also interrelated with the emergence of multiple early Jewish identities, which all found a basis in the Torah, the prophets, or the psalms.

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; Body; Judeans, Jews, and their Neighbors: Jewish Identity in the Second Temple Period. Daniel R. Schwartz; Conflicting Models of Identity and the Publication of the Torah in the Persian Period. Thomas Römer; Joseph in Egypt: Living under Foreign Rule according to the Joseph Story and its Early Intra- and Extra-Biblical Reception. Jakob Wöhrle; The Adversaries in Ezra/Nehemiah - Fictitious or Real? A Case Study in Creating Identity in Late Persian and Hellenistic Times. Sebastian Grätz

"Genocide" in the Book of Esther: Cultural Integration and the Right of Resistance against Pogroms. Reinhard AchenbachAre Foreign Rulers Allowed to Enter and Sacrifice in the Jerusalem Temple? Rainer Albertz; The Construction of Samari(t)an Identity from the Inside and from the Outside. Stefan Schorch; Manifest Identity: From Ioudaios to Jew: Household Judaism as Anti-Hellenization in the Late Hasmonean. Era Andrea M. Berlin; Honor and Humiliation as a Factor in Hasmonean Politics according to the Narrator of 1 Maccabees. Doron Mendels

From the "Master of the Elephants" to the "Most Ungracious Wretch": The Image of Foreign Commanders in the Second Book of Maccabees. Johannes SchnocksSeduced by the Enemy or Wise Strategy? The Presentation of Non-Violence and Accommodation with Foreign Powers in Ancient Jewish Literary Sources. Catherine Hezser; The High Priests and Rome: Why Cooperation Failed. Kai Trampedach; Index of Ancient Sources; Index of Authors; Back Cover