Creation, Covenant, and the Beginnings of Judaism

Creation, Covenant, and the Beginnings of Judaism Reconceiving Historical Time in the Second Temple Period

In Creation, Covenant, and the Beginnings of Judaism, Ari Mermelstein examines Second Temple writers who described creation, rather than a historical event, as the beginning of Jewish history in order to resolve a perceived sense of temporal rupture with Israel’s covenantal past.
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