Practice
- Purity
- Women
- Sacrifice
- Prayer
- Law
- Interaction between Jews and Gentiles
- Temple and Synagogue; Sanhedrin
- Political context - Relations with Romans; who rules what in the Land?
- Hellenization
- Groups: Priests, Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Common people/ 'people of the land'
- Social-economic situation(s)
- Afterlife/Resurrection
- Eschatology
- Messiah
- Theodicy - Where is God? What time is it? (exile?)
- Salvation (see Law)
- Sin/atonement
- Angels/demons
- Election (light/dark)
- Scripture, canon
- Ethics
- Apocalypse
- (Re)interpreted Scripture: Pesher, Rewritten Bible
- Wisdom
3 comments:
Scribes and scribalism would be good when discussing wisdom. Ben Sira would be a good text to tackle with that.
For the history bit . . . I wonder if it might be most helpful to paint the picture using the broadest strokes possible, mentioning only the most important events and leaders. That would make it easier to grasp the larger historical picture, and you'd be able then to fill in bits of detail and helpful anecdotes onto that basic outline whenever it turns out to be necessary.
FWIW
Very helpful. Thanks!
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