Judaism and the Gentiles

Jewish Patterns of Universalism (to 135 CE)
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4813-1842-6
Verlag: Baylor University Press

Buch, Englisch, 580 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

In the Second-Temple period non-Jews were attracted to Judaism's communal life, religious observance and theological imagination. On the Jewish side, this was matched by the development of several discrete "patterns of universalism"-ways in which Jews were able to conceive of a positive place for Gentiles within their symbolic world. In this book Terence Donaldson collects and comments on all of the texts (to the end of the second Jewish rebellion in 135 CE) that deal with Gentile sympathizers, proselytes, ethical monotheists and participants in end-time redemption. In impressive detail, Donaldson identifies, defines, and describes these "patterns of universalism.

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Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
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Part I: Texts and Commentary
- 2. Scripture, Septuagint and Apocrypha
- 3. Pseudepigrapha
- 4. Qumran
- 5. Philo
- 6. Josephus
- 7. Greco-Roman Literature
- 8. Early Christian Literature
- 9. Inscriptions
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Part II: Patterns of Universalism
- 10. Sympathization
- 11. Conversion
- 12. Ethical Monotheism
- 13. Participation in Eschatological Salvation
- 14. Conclusion
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Bibliography
- Indices