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Covenant in the Persian Period

From Genesis to Chronicles

by Gary Knoppers, Richard J. Bautch

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  • Hardback
  • 16.3 x 23.4 x 3.9 cm

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The 22 essays in this new and comprehensive study explore how notions of covenant, especially the Sinaitic covenant, flourished during the Neo-Babylonian, Persian, and early Hellenistic periods. Following the upheaval of the Davidic monarchy, the temple's destruction, the disenfranchisement of the Jerusalem priesthood, the deportation of Judeans to other lands, the struggles of Judeans who remained in the land, and the limited returns of some Judean groups from exile, the covenant motif proved to be an increasingly influential symbol in Judean intellectual life. The contributors to this volume, drawn from many different countries including Canada, Germany, Israel, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States, document how Judean writers working within historiographic, Levitical, prophetic, priestly, and sapiential circles creatively reworked older notions of covenant to invent a new way of understanding this idea. These writers examine how new conceptions of the covenant made between YHWH and Israel at Mt. Sinai play a significant role in the process of early Jewish identity formation. Others focus on how transformations in the Abrahamic, Davidic, and Priestly covenants responded to cultural changes within Judean society, both in the homeland and in the diaspora. Cumulatively, the studies of biblical writings, from Genesis to Chronicles, demonstrate how Jewish literature in this period developed a striking diversity of ideas related to covenantal themes.
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  • Authors

    Gary Knoppers +1

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Eisenbrauns

  • Published

    October 2015

  • Weight

    863g

  • Page Count

    475

  • Dimensions

    16.3 x 23.4 x 3.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9781575063560

  • ISBN-10

    1575063565

  • Eden Code

    4369028

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