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.
Light Against Darkness : Dualism in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and the Contemporary World
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Biblical Quotations and Allusions in Second Temple Jewish Literature
Armin Lange, Matthias Weigold
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Between Text and Text : The Hermeneutics of Intertextuality in Ancient Cultures and Their Afterlife in Medieval and Modern Times
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The Ways of a King : Legal and Political Ideas in the Bible
Geoffrey P. Miller
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Between Symbolism and Realism : The Use of Symbolic and Non-Symbolic Language in Ancient Jewish Apocalypses 333-63 B.C.E
Bennie H. Reynolds Reynolds
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"See, I will bring a scroll recounting what befell me" (Ps 40:8) : Epigraphy and Daily Life from the Bible to the Talmud
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Religious Competition in the Third Century CE: Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World
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Exploring the Dead Sea Scrolls : Archaeology and Literature of the Qumran Caves
Hanan Eshel
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The Faces of Torah : Studies in the Texts and Contexts of Ancient Judaism in Honor of Steven Fraade
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"You Shall Not Kill" : The Prohibition of Killing in Ancient Religions and Cultures
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Institutionalized Routine Prayers at Qumran: Fact or Assumption?
Paul Heger
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