Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity(English, Paperback, Tobolowsky Andrew)

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Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity(English, Paperback, Tobolowsky Andrew) is written by Tobolowsky Andrew and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1009392913 (ISBN 10) and 9781009392914 (ISBN 13).

This Element explores constructions of Israelite identity among Jewish, Samaritan Israelites, and Christian authors in Late Antiquity, especially early Late Antiquity. It identifies three major strategies for claiming an Israelite identity between these three groups: a 'biological' strategy, a 'biology plus' strategy, and an 'abiological' strategy, referring to the difference between Jewish claims to Israel premised on exclusive biological descent, Samaritan Israelite acknowledgments of shared descent, and the 'Verus Israel' tradition in Christianity, which disavows the importance of descent. Using this framework, it makes various general conclusions about the construction of ethnic identity itself, including the inadequacy of treating descent claims as the sine qua non of ethnicity and role played in any given vision of ethnic identity by the individual creativity of a given author.