Imagining the Other and Constructing Israelite Identity in the Early Second Temple Period Poisoned Pen Press *Includes a Table of Contents*Includes

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Imagining the Other and Constructing Israelite Identity in the Early Second Temple Period Poisoned Pen Press *Includes a Table of Contents*IncludesThis volume sheds light on how particular constructions of the 'Other's contributed to an ongoing process of defining what 'Israel' or an 'Israelite was or was supposed to be in literature taken to be authoritative in the late Persian and Early Hellenistic periods. It asks, who is an insider and who an outsider? Are boundaries permeable? Are there different ideas expressed within individual books? What about constructions of the (partial) 'Other' from