How Long to Read Letters from Home

How Long Does it Take to Read Letters from Home?

It takes the average reader to read Letters from Home by Malka Z. Simkovich

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Description

The announcement by the Persian king Cyrus in 538 BCE that exiled Judeans could return to their homeland should have been cause for celebration. Instead, it plunged Judeans into animated debate. Only a small community returned and participated in the construction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. By the end of the sixth century BCE, Judeans faced a theological conundrum: Had the catastrophic punishment of exile, believed to mark God's retribution for the people's sins, come to an end? While Jews in Judea believed that life abroad signified God's wrath and rejection, Jews outside of Judea rejected this notion. From both sides of the diasporic line, Jews wrote letters and speeches that conveyed the sense that their positions had ancient roots in Torah traditions. In this book, Malka Z. Simkovich investigates the rhetorical strategies--such as pseudepigraphy, ventriloquy, and mirroring--that Egyptian and Judean Jews incorporated into their writings about life outside the Land of Israel, charting the boundary-marking push and pull that took place within Jewish letters in the Hellenistic era. Drawing on this correspondence and other contemporaneous writings, Simkovich argues that the construct of diaspora at the time--reinforced by some and negated by others--produced a tension that lay at the core of Jewish identity in the ancient world. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of ancient Judaism and to laypersons interested in the questions of a Jewish homeland and Jewish diaspora.

How long is Letters from Home?

Letters from Home by Malka Z. Simkovich is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

This makes it 0% the length of the average book. It also has 0% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Letters from Home Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read Letters from Home aloud.

What Reading Level is Letters from Home?

Letters from Home is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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