Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. - Seth Schwartz

66 CHAPTER TWO humanity are not subject to interference by other powers. The cosmos is thus a simple, well-ordered place—a cosmo ...

RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E 67 portant qualification (because it applies to all Jews, not only sectarians) is that thecomp ...

68 CHAPTER TWO may be implied in a clause of P. Yadin 18.^45 Especially ingenious scribes and judges may have been able to recon ...

RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E 69 sabbatical year intervenes. The Pentateuchal prohibition of interest is thus evaded in a wa ...

70 CHAPTER TWO at the southern tip of the Dead Sea, mostly in the 120s and early 130s. To judge from the names of witnesses and ...

RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E 71 beddedin the system, and we cannot be sure that the legal practice, even of the local pagan ...

72 CHAPTER TWO some of them joined a revolt intended in part to restore the temple and the authority of the Torah in Judaea—if t ...

RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E 73 patrons may have been less interested in their clients’ support for the Temple and Torah an ...

74 CHAPTER TWO there were illegal ways, and in any case the force of social pressure should not be underestimated. Despite the f ...

RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E 75 of the so-called apocalyptic books, especially 1 Enoch, and in related litera- ture, like J ...

76 CHAPTER TWO cal Israelite prophecy).^66 All we can say for certain, more or less, is that the narrative first appears in writ ...

RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E 77 the problem of evil was not generated (though it may admittedly have been intensified) by a ...

78 CHAPTER TWO tion with the enigmatically brief biblical story of the descent to earth of the sons of the gods (Genesis 6:1–4). ...

RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E 79 thing to Mesopotamian lore associated with the antediluvian hero Enmedura- nki,^74 but in i ...

80 CHAPTER TWO The Angel of Darkness leads all the children of righteousness astray, and until his end, all their sin, iniquitie ...

RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E 81 the rule of Evil accords with an inviolable but inscrutable divine plan in books like Jubil ...

82 CHAPTER TWO in some circles, the consciousness that it was separate from the covenantal system, and some individuals or group ...

RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E 83 substanceofJewishscribalesotericism;Iwishonlytosuggestaninternalsocial dynamic that might h ...

84 CHAPTER TWO ical response had the advantage of admitting cosmological schemes into the ideological center of Judaism—as well ...

RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E 85 aprobablyrudimentaryandcertainlyeccentricfamiliaritywithGreekrhetoric and popular philosoph ...