What Makes a People?: Early Jewish Ideas of Peoplehood and Their Evolving Impact

Preface\nContents\nSocial Conflicts in the Persian Period: Yehud, Elephantine and Samaria\nWhat Makes a People According to Israel’s Wisdom Literature? ἔθνος and ἔθνη in Proverbs, Wisdom of Sirach and Wisdom of Solomon\nLaos in the First Book of Maccabees: A Hasmonean Perspective in the Context of Limited Statehood\nSociology of Ben Sira’s Patriarchal Society: Textual and Papyrological Perspectives\nBen Sira’s Catalogue of Generosity (Sir 7:32‒36)\n“When one is wise to his people’s advantage” (Sir 37:23): Political Intelligence in the Book of Ben Sira\nKonfrontationen. Die Kontrahenten des Volkes im Buch der Weisheit\nDie jüdische Lebensweise in den griechischen Versionen des Buches Esther\nThe Identity of “Israel” in the Book of Tobit: How to Create an ethnos?\nThe Heroes of the Book of Tobit as Figures of the Assyrian Diaspora\n“For we are the sons of the prophets”: The Idea of a People in the Book of Tobit\nWhich Idols? The Criticism of Idolatry in the Epistle of Jeremiah (Bar 6)\nWhat Makes a People in the Dead Sea Scrolls?\nEntangled Jewish Identities in Rome. The Case of “Barbarians” in Philo and Josephus\nμαθητεύσατε πάντα τὰ ἔθνη (Matt 28:19): Jesus’s Cosmocracy and the Universalization of Discipleship—an “Inclusive” Reading\nThe Mixed Marriage Crisis (Ezra 9‒10, Nehemiah 13), and Its Resonance in Jewish Law and Lore\nThe Notion of the Nation: How Hebrew Terminology Has Adjusted to Changing Circumstances—A Tale of Cultural Semantics\nList of Contributors\nIndex of Subjects\nIndex of Modern Authors\nIndex of Sources