Tożsamości Judejczyków okresu Drugiej Świątyni i relacje z obcymi
Judean Identity in the Second Temple Period and Relations with Other

Summary/Abstract: This article argues that the mechanisms leading to the establishment of the system of Jewish self-identification during the Second Temple period – e.g. circumcision and Passover – were possible only thanks to the contacts of the Jews with others, both in Palestine and in the diaspora. In the monar-chic period, the local population in Palestine mostly employed rituals of self-identity within families and small clans, as well as the subjects of the monarch. The turning point in the history of the Judeans occurred in the 6th – 5th centuries BCE during the Babylonian Exile and in the diaspora of the Persian period. The Judeans and their descendants coexisted during this period, largely peacefully, with different populations. These experiences of intensive contacts with ‘others’, possible only thanks to deportations and migrations, shed light on the process of establishment of the system of self-identity of the Jews during the Second Temple period.

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