Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany; Martina Kepper, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Jewish authoritative writings of the Second temple Period had to adopt
to total different religious as well as political circumstances their
adressees had to face. Inspired by the idea of Paul Kosmin, that the
imposture of a total new imperial time regime by the Seleucid rulers
provoked autochthonous reorientations in means of time and space, the
contributions of this volume examine if this holds true to the writings
that circulated during the contemporary Second Temple Period. The
methodological approach for the examination is the concept of
space-time, or chronotope, already developed by Michail Bakthin for 20th
century literature. Focusing on Judaism of the Second Temple turned out
to be very fruitful, as we can distinguish between distinct
religious-sociologically formed Jewish groups under different spatial
conditions (for example “diaspora” vs. core land). They all produced
literature in order to cope with the traumatizing experiences of the
loss of sacred spaces as well as the transformation processes that, due
to the loss of “Jerusalem” as the spatial anchor point, endangered their
religious and national identity. Documents of so-called Hellenistic
Judaism in the form of the Septuagint as well as of Palestinian Judaism,
which becomes tangible in the texts of Qumran, or in the texts of
Elephantine all show signs of increased interest in temporal and spatial
orientation, remembering or adopting the already known, as well as
inventing new anchor points as their special “chronotope”. In sum, by
establishing their own chronotopes, Judaism in Persian and
Hellenistic-Roman times gained resilience and developed strategies to
redefine its own identity.
groups
under different spatial conditions (for example “diaspora” vs. core
land). They all produced literature in order to cope with the
traumatizing experiences of the loss of sacred spaces as well as the
transformation processes that, due to the loss of “Jerusalem” as the
spatial anchor point, endangered their religious and national identity.
Documents of so-called Hellenistic Judaism in the form of the Septuagint
as well as of Palestinian Judaism, which becomes tangible in the texts
of Qumran, or in the texts of Elephantine all show signs of increased
interest in temporal and spatial orientation, remembering or adopting
the already known, as well as inventing new anchor points as their
special “chronotope”. In sum, by establishing their own chronotopes,
Judaism in Persian and Hellenistic-Roman times gained resilience and
developed strategies to redefine its own identity.
eBook ISBN:
9783112240366
Paperback ISBN:
9783112240359
Audience(s) for this book
Researchers, Professionals and Practitioners, Undergraduates
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Lucas Brum Teixeira and Barbara Schmitz
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