Full Text Available

Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.

Sin and human accountability in second temple Judaism

Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2017.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Geyser-Fouché, Ananda
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Pretoria 2018
Subjects:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1867613491423084544
access_status_str Open Access
author2 Geyser-Fouché, Ananda
author_browse Geyser-Fouché, Ananda
author_facet Geyser-Fouché, Ananda
collection Thesis
dc_rights_str_mv © 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.
description Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
format Thesis
id oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/66142
institution University of Pretoria (South Africa)
language English
last_indexed 2026-06-10T12:36:59.722Z
license_str Other — see source repository
provenance_str_mv Harvested via OAI-PMH from UPSpace — University of Pretoria Institutional Repository
publishDate 2018
publishDateRange 2018
publishDateSort 2018
publisher University of Pretoria
publisherStr University of Pretoria
record_format dspace
source_str UPSpace — University of Pretoria Institutional Repository
spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/66142 Sin and human accountability in second temple Judaism Geyser-Fouché, Ananda kilisuto@gmail.com Namgung, Young UCTD Second Temple Judaism Sin Human accountability Divine agency Human agency Evil inclination The Song of Moses History Time Creation Theology theses SDG-04 SDG-04: Quality education Theology theses SDG-10 SDG-10: Reduced inequalities Theology theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2017. i Sanders (1977:114) contends that “[s]in comes only when man actually disobeys; if he were not to disobey he would not be a sinner.” This thesis was thus motivated to critique Sanders’s contention in relation to sin and human accountability in Second Temple Judaism. Before delving into various understandings of sin and human accountability of Second Temple Judaism, in Chapter 2, I deal with the Weltanschauung of Second Temple Judaism. It was observed that Israel’s covenantal history is far from discontinuous with creation at a time of severe theological, sociological, and political plights in spite of the presence of sin and evil. In Chapters 3, I deal with how the authors of 1 Enoch and Jubilees understood the presence of sin and evil. Even though the Watcher story in these Enochic traditions serves to attribute the origin of sin to the fallen angels, it was observed the Watcher story cannot quench Second Temple Jews’ uneasiness in relation to the presence of sin and evil. In Chapter 4, I deal with Qumran literature. By focusing on the term yetzer ra both in pre-Qumran and in Qumran writings, it is worth noting that Qumran literature shows a tendency to realize the severity of the sinfulness of humanity in a complicated and radicalized manner. When looking at first century Jewish (4 Ezra and 2 Baruch) and early Christian (Romans and James) literature in Chapter 5, it was observed that the authors of 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch came to develop further pessimistic anthropologies distinct from their predecessors in the Second Temple period. However, for them, a possibility is open for the few righteous remnants to obey divine commandments. It can be said that their understandings of sin and human accountability appear to be synergistic. For Paul and James, however, the paradigm of the relationship between divine agency and human agency is shifted from synergism to monergism in terms of the Jesus Christ event. ae2026 Old Testament Studies PhD Unrestricted SDG-04: Quality education SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions 2018-08-15T06:29:03Z 2018-08-15T06:29:03Z 2018-04-20 2017-08 Thesis Namgung, Y 2017, Sin and human accountability in second temple Judaism, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66142> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66142 en © 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria
spellingShingle UCTD
Second Temple Judaism
Sin
Human accountability
Divine agency
Human agency
Evil inclination
The Song of Moses
History
Time
Creation
Theology theses SDG-04
SDG-04: Quality education
Theology theses SDG-10
SDG-10: Reduced inequalities
Theology theses SDG-16
SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
Sin and human accountability in second temple Judaism
title Sin and human accountability in second temple Judaism
title_full Sin and human accountability in second temple Judaism
title_fullStr Sin and human accountability in second temple Judaism
title_full_unstemmed Sin and human accountability in second temple Judaism
title_short Sin and human accountability in second temple Judaism
title_sort sin and human accountability in second temple judaism
topic UCTD
Second Temple Judaism
Sin
Human accountability
Divine agency
Human agency
Evil inclination
The Song of Moses
History
Time
Creation
Theology theses SDG-04
SDG-04: Quality education
Theology theses SDG-10
SDG-10: Reduced inequalities
Theology theses SDG-16
SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66142