50 Years of Modelling Second Temple Judaism: Whence and Wither?

The first section describes the major progress in the study of Second Temple Judaism during the past fifty years, since A.S. van der Woude founded the Journal for the Study of Judaism. This part—the whence—comprises the main bulk of the argument. It also paves the way for the conclusion—the wither....

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Main Author: Klostergaard Petersen, Anders 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2019, Volume: 50, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 604-629
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Journal / Jewish studies / History 587 BC-135 / History 1970-2020 / Hellenism / Anthropology / Interpretation of / Cultural theory
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
HD Early Judaism
Further subjects:B Interpretation of
B niche construction theory
B THEORY OF CULTURE
B Judaism-Hellenism debate
B biocultural evolution
B Nischenkonstruktionstheorie
B emotional studies
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Summary:The first section describes the major progress in the study of Second Temple Judaism during the past fifty years, since A.S. van der Woude founded the Journal for the Study of Judaism. This part—the whence—comprises the main bulk of the argument. It also paves the way for the conclusion—the wither. There, I present some ideas potentially leading to new advances in the field. I call for an engagement with the social and natural sciences based on a gene-culture coevolutionary paradigm. In particular, adopting a biocultural evolutionary perspective makes it possible to situate the field and its empirical focus in a much larger context. Thereby, we shall be able to tackle some of the pivotal questions with which our scholarly predecessors wrestled. Finally, I discuss emotional studies that may help us to get a better grasp on a traditionally moot question in the texts we study.
ISSN:1570-0631
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700631-15051302