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A Kingdom of Priests : Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Jewish Culture and Contexts SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (279 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812202274
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Kingdom of PriestsDDC classification:
  • 296.4/95
LOC classification:
  • BM651 -- .H56 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Priest and Scribe: Ancestry and Professional Skill in the Book of the Watchers, the Wisdom of Ben Sira, and Aramaic Levi -- 2 Jubilees' Kingdom of Priests -- 3 Priesthood and Purity Laws: The Temple Scroll and the Damascus Document -- 4 Priesthood and Sectarianism: The Rule of the Community, the Damascus Document, and the Book of Revelation -- 5 Priesthood and Allegory: Philo and Alexandrian Judaism -- 6 'The Children of Abraham Your Friend": The End of Priesthood, the Rise of Christianity, and the Neutralization of Jewish Sectarianism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Considers a range of texts--including the Book of Watchers, Book of Jubilees, legal documents from the Dead Sea scrolls, writings of Philo of Alexandria, and the Book of Revelation--to explore the tensions inherent in Second Temple Judaism's emphasis on ancestry as the primary criterion for inclusion among the chosen people of Israel.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Priest and Scribe: Ancestry and Professional Skill in the Book of the Watchers, the Wisdom of Ben Sira, and Aramaic Levi -- 2 Jubilees' Kingdom of Priests -- 3 Priesthood and Purity Laws: The Temple Scroll and the Damascus Document -- 4 Priesthood and Sectarianism: The Rule of the Community, the Damascus Document, and the Book of Revelation -- 5 Priesthood and Allegory: Philo and Alexandrian Judaism -- 6 'The Children of Abraham Your Friend": The End of Priesthood, the Rise of Christianity, and the Neutralization of Jewish Sectarianism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Considers a range of texts--including the Book of Watchers, Book of Jubilees, legal documents from the Dead Sea scrolls, writings of Philo of Alexandria, and the Book of Revelation--to explore the tensions inherent in Second Temple Judaism's emphasis on ancestry as the primary criterion for inclusion among the chosen people of Israel.

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