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Cláudia Andréa Prata Ferreira é Professora Titular de Literaturas Hebraica e Judaica e Cultura Judaica - do Setor de Língua e Literatura Hebraicas do Departamento de Letras Orientais e Eslavas da Faculdade de Letras da UFRJ.

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segunda-feira, 22 de dezembro de 2008

From Yahwism to Judahism (Charles David Isbell)

From Yahwism to Judahism

Some scholars have argued that there were multiple factors involved in the reasons why the exiled Judahites did not abandon Yahweh for Marduk, but the scaffolding for the multiplicity as it is normally defined is of such a patchwork character as to be unwieldy.


By Charles David Isbell

Director of Jewish Studies - Louisiana State University - December 2008


The era of the Judahite exile (587-539 BCE) marked cataclysmic changes in the fortunes of the inhabitants of Israel and Judah, changes that were both political and theological. On the one hand, the upheaval caused by the loss of independence, statehood, king, and Temple had no political pattern from the past on which to draw. On the other hand, this political catastrophe mandated the necessity of a theological response calling for a level of creativity and innovation equally without parallel in the history of Israel and Judah. >>> Leia mais, clique aqui.

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