Three Transformations in Judaism

The purpose of the present paper is to study certain central lines of development of Jewish religious thought and the related transformation of Jewish society during the period of the Second Temple. The endeavour, because of its particular character, is primarily concerned with patterns of thought and their social correlatives. We do not intend to write a technical sociological essay, to compose a history of Judaism at that time, or to explore the chief cultural, political or other contacts between Judaism and Hellenism or others of the surrounding cultures. These are weighty matters indeed and here they will be dealt with as they impinge upon our main theme, but they are not of its essence. Here we define our subject chiefly in relationship and contrast to the situation ofJudaism in the period of the First Temple. The specific subjects to which this paper will be devoted are three changes. They are intertwined and related one to the other, but are each separate. The first of them is the change from oral tradition to written tradition and the shift of attitude towards written tradition

Aesthetics · Character (mathematics) · Epistemology · History of religions · Judaism · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Second Temple period · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Theme (computing) · Theology · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies

• The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World

  Open Access•Michele Renee Salzman•Cambridge History of Religions in…•2013

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