BetweenYahwismand Judaism - 9781009459624

BetweenYahwismand JudaismJudean Cult and Culture during the Early Hellenistic Period (332175 BCE)\nAuthor(s): Yonatan Adler\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009459624, 978-1009459624\nSynopsis\nThis Element seeks to characterize key aspects of the cult and culture of the Judean populace at large, in Judea and the diaspora, during the Early Hellenistic period [tel] BCE). It asks if this period signals cultural continuity with the Yahwism of the past, or cultural rupture with the emergence Judaism as known from later times. It investigates: administrative structures, whether Torah was widely observed, how and where Judeans performed cultic worship of YHWH and if this had become exclusive of other deities, adoption of Greek cultural elements and what literature was well-known and influential, including Biblical literature. It concludes that while no rupture is evident, and the Early Hellenistic p.