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.
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Frontmatter
IPreface
VWelcome Address
VIIWelcome Address
IXContents
XIAuthors
XIIIIntroduction
1From the Mythification of History to the Transcending of Empires
15Chronotopoi and the Making of a Calendar in the Book of Judith
39Time and Space in the Aramaic Documents from Elephantine
55Ambiguous Spaces and Timeless Ideas: On the Openness of Time and Space in the Book of Ecclesiastes
75עולם in the Book of Ben Sira and Its Translations
97The Chronotopes of Ezechiel, Baruch, and Sapientia. Three Case Studies
119Time of Preparing the Way in the Desert: Prayer and Wilderness in the Dead Sea Scrolls
141Apocalyptic Visions and Historical Revisions: Time in the Book of Daniel
159A Sundial from the Southern Wall Excavations, Jerusalem: The Historical–Cultural Context
181Index
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