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The Survivors of Israel: A Reconsideration of the Theology of Pre-Christian Judaism

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The Survivors of Israel: A Reconsideration of the Theology of Pre-Christian Judaism - Elliott, Mark Adam
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This study challenges the conventional view of scholars like E. P. Sanders that Late Second Temple Judaism was theologically nationalistic, offering in its place a theory which argues that the intertestamental writings do not anticipate the salvation of all Jews but only of a faithful remnant within Israel. Working carefully with the major books of the pseudepigrapha and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Mark Adam Elliott shows that the authors of such works anticipated an imminent -- and scathing -- judgment of Israel that would ...

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The Survivors of Israel: A Reconsideration of the Theology of Pre-Christian Judaism 2000, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, MI

ISBN-13: 9780802844835

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