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This book represents the fruit of a long process of study and reflection, a powerful but subtle synthesis, by one of the most eminent scholars of Second Temple Judaism. Far from a conventional narrative history, it is organized around themes and seeks to uncover the essence of Hebraic/Jewish religious thinking while confronting the phenomenon of its division into several “parties” and traditions....

and of the value of purity were all closely linked to the idea of salvation, and any modification made to the solution of any of these problems was inevitably felt by all the others. Furthermore, the very image of salvation varied over time and from one place to another. There was the salvation of the individual on earth and of the individual beyond the earth, the salvation of Israel and that of all peoples. The formulations of the problem are rich and complex and vary according to the point of view
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