"Who will put my soul on the scale?" : psychostasia in Second Temple Judaism

dc.contributor.authorHowes, Llewellyn
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-19T07:13:01Z
dc.date.available2014-09-19T07:13:01Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.descriptionThis article is a research output from a doctoral dissertation that was completed under the supervision of professor Andries G. van Aarde at the University of Pretoria: Llewellyn Howes, “The Sayings Gospel Q within the Contexts of the Third and Renewed Quests for the Historical Jesus: Wisdom and Apocalypticism in the First Century,” (Ph.D. diss., University of Pretoria, 2012). (http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23913)en_US
dc.description.abstract“Psychostasia” is the notion that a divine or supernatural figure weighs and/or measures the souls of people when judging them. The present effort represents the second of three articles on psychostasia. The first article focused on the occurrences of psychostasia in the OT. In the current article, attention is paid to the occurrences of psychostasia in apocryphal and pseudepigraphical Jewish writings from the Second Temple period, including the Qumran Scrolls. The current purpose is firstly to determine whether or not the concept of psychostasia was a recognised and recognisable feature of Second Temple Palestinian Judaism. Allowing for a positive answer to the latter, the second purpose of this article is to ascertain how the idea of psychostasia was understood by Palestinian Jews of the Second Temple period.en_US
dc.description.librarianam2014en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_oldtest.htmlen_US
dc.identifier.citationHowes, L 2014, '"Who will put my soul on the scale?" : psychostasia in Second Temple Judaism', Old Testament Essays, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 100-122.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1010-9919
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/42048
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherOld Testament Society of South Africaen_US
dc.rightsOld Testament Society of South Africaen_US
dc.subjectPsychostasiaen_US
dc.subjectApocryphaen_US
dc.subjectPseudepigraphaen_US
dc.subjectDead Sea Scrollsen_US
dc.subjectSecond Temple Palestinian Judaismen_US
dc.title"Who will put my soul on the scale?" : psychostasia in Second Temple Judaismen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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