Ancient Judaism

The natural and cultural background of ancient Judaism. The social structure and its setting -- The Gerim and the ethic of the patriarchs -- The covenant and confederacy. The social laws of the Israelite legal collections -- Warfare and war prophecy -- Social significance of the war god of the confederacy -- Priesthood, cult, and ethics. Cultic peculiarities of Yahwism -- Priests and the cult monopoly of Jerusalem -- Forms of Israelite intellectuality in the pre-prophetic era -- Ethics and eschatology of Yahwism -- Intercultural relations in pre-exilic ethics. The establishment of the Jewish pariah people. Social psychology of the prophets -- The ethic and theodicy of the prophets -- The pariah community -- The exile -- Supplement : the Pharisees. Sects and cults of the post-exile period -- Judaism and early Christianity