Judeans and Jews: Four Faces of Dichotomy in Ancient Jewish History (The Kenneth Michael Tanenbaum Series in Jewish Studies) - Hardcover

Schwartz, Daniel R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1442648392 ISBN 13: 9781442648395

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2014

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Daniel R. Schwartz is a professor in the Department of the History of the Jewish People and Contemporary Jewry and the academic director of the Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442648392
• ISBN 13: 9781442648395
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192