Ebook: On Human Nature in Early Judaism: Creation, Composition, and Condition
Author: Jeffrey Paul Garcia
- Series: Journal of Ancient Judaism - Supplements 34
- Year: 2020
- Publisher: Brill Schöningh
- Language: English
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This book is an analysis of early Jewish thought on human nature, specifically, the complex of characteristics that are understood to be universally innate, and/or God-given, to collective humanity and the manner which they depict human existence in relationship, or lack thereof, to God.Jewish discourse in the Greco-Roman period (4th c. BCE until 1st c. CE) on human nature was not exclusively particularistic, although the immediate concern was often communal-specific. Evidence shows that many of these discussions were also an attempt to grasp a general, or universal, human nature. The focus of this work has been narrowed to three categories that encapsulate the most prevalent themes in Second Temple Jewish texts, namely, creation, composition, and condition.
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