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dc.contributor.author | Mermelstein, Ari | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-05T16:16:14Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-08-05T16:16:14Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Mermelstein, Ari. (2017). When History Repeats Itself: The Theological Significance of the Abrahamic Covenant in Early Jewish Writings. Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 27(2), 113-142. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0951-8207 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://doi.org/10.1177/0309089217746847 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/4570 | - |
dc.description | Scholarly journal article | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Alongside ‘Mosaic discourse’, Second Temple period authors increasingly looked to Abraham as a source of instruction and authority. This article focuses on the growing importance of the Abrahamic covenant through the lens of five re-tellings of Israel’s history that link the past with the present: the Damascus Document, the Apocalypse of Weeks, 4 Ezra, Nehemiah 9, and Galatians. This article argues that various authors placed themselves within a historical narrative that spotlighted the Abrahamic covenant in order to identify themselves as the elect and demarcate the boundaries separating them from the non-elect. The ideological orientation of each text can account for why the Abrahamic covenant, rather than the later Mosaic pact, became the basis for identity politics. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha;27(2) | - |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.subject | Abraham | en_US |
dc.subject | covenant | en_US |
dc.subject | Galatians | en_US |
dc.subject | Damascus Document | en_US |
dc.subject | 1 Enoch | en_US |
dc.title | When History Repeats Itself: The Theological Significance of the Abrahamic Covenant in Early Jewish Writings. | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.contributor.orcid | 0000-0002-3572-9518 | |
local.yu.facultypage | https://www.yu.edu/faculty/pages/mermelstein-ari | |
Appears in Collections: | Yeshiva College: Faculty Publications |
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