The 22 essays in this new and comprehensive study explore how
notions of covenant, especially the Sinaitic covenant, flourished
during the Neo-Babylonian, Persian, and early Hellenistic periods.
Following the upheaval of the Davidic monarchy, the temple's
destruction, the disenfranchisement of the Jerusalem priesthood,
the deportation of Judeans to other lands, the struggles of Judeans
who remained in the land, and the limited returns of some Judean
groups from exile, the covenant motif proved to be an increasingly
influential symbol in Judean intellectual life. The contributors to
this volume, drawn from many different countries including Canada,
Germany, Israel, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States,
document how Judean writers working within historiographic,
Levitical, prophetic, priestly, and sapiential circles creatively
reworked older notions of covenant to invent a new way of
understanding this idea. These writers examine how new conceptions
of the covenant made between YHWH and Israel at Mt. Sinai play a
significant role in the process of early Jewish identity formation.
Others focus on how transformations in the Abrahamic, Davidic, and
Priestly covenants responded to cultural changes within Judean
society, both in the homeland and in the diaspora. Cumulatively,
the studies of biblical writings, from Genesis to Chronicles,
demonstrate how Jewish literature in this period developed a
striking diversity of ideas related to covenantal themes.
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