The Restoration of Israel: Israel's Re-Gathering and the Fate of the Nations in Early Jewish Literature and Luke-Acts

by Michael E. Fuller

This study identifies and explores texts of restoration in a wide selection of Early Jewish Literature in order to assess the variety of ways in which Jews envisioned Israel's future restoration. Particular attention is given to the expression of restoration in what is identified in the present study as the exilic model of restoration. In this model, Israel's restoration is characterized by the features of (a) a future re-gathering, (b) the fate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110188961
• ISBN13: 9783110188967
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"