In writing in English about the classical era, is it more
appropriate to refer to "Jews" or to "Judeans"? What difference
does it make? Today, many scholars consider "Judeans" the more
authentic term, and "Jews" and "Judaism" merely anachronisms.
In Judeans and Jews, Daniel R. Schwartz argues that we need both
terms in order to reflect the dichotomy between the tendencies of
those, whether in Judea or in the Disapora, whose identity was
based on the state and the land (Judeans), and those whose identity
was based on a religion and culture (Jews).
Presenting the Second Temple era as an age of transition between
a territorial past and an exilic and religious future, Judeans and
Jews not only sharpens our understanding of this important era but
also sheds important light on the revolution in Jewish identity
caused by the creation of the modern state of Israel.
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