Samuel L. Adams
Autor(a) de Social and Economic Life in Second Temple Judea
Obras por Samuel L. Adams
Associated Works
Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism) (2016) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
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Críticas
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- Obras
- 4
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 31
- Popularidade
- #440,253
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 10
The author mines source material from the Old Testament, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, New Testament, Josephus, and archaeological discoveries from Israel to Egypt to attempt to reconstruct the situation of Judeans in this time period. He discusses the place of women and children, marriage and divorce, and taxation and relationship to the state, among other matters.
The author takes a rather expansive view of what would be considered Second Temple sources, including Ruth, Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and countenancing (at least parts of) Leviticus as a possibility as well. These works claim for themselves to be from an earlier age; nevertheless, day-to-day life was probably not that terribly different in terms of the economy between the two periods, and they all help to illuminate the best takeaway from this work: life was not easy for most Judeans, living marginal and subsistence-based lives farming in Judea, precariously close to famine and/or indebtedness/debt slavery, especially in light of the burden of taxation levied by foreign overlords. Life may have been good for the upper crust, but that's about all.
A useful work in order to get the best picture we can of the lived experience of Jews during the time of the second Temple.
**--galley received as part of early review program… (mais)