Individual vs. Collective Responsibility: From the Ancient Near East and the Bible to the Greco-Roman World

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Freund, Richard A.
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1997
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Individual vs. Collective Responsibility: From the Ancient Near East and the Bible to the Greco-Roman World

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Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament
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11
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2
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279-304
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The question of individual and collective responsibility and punishment in the Hebrew Bible has been discussed since the 19th century as an important indicator of the changing standards of justice present at different historical periods in ancient Israel. The question, of course, of changing standards of justice based on changing social, religious or political circumstances is itself of interest here. If one has a standard of justice mentioned in one section of the Bible and in another section of the Bible this standard is negated, one is confronting the issue of the mechanism for change of Biblical Law itself. I will for the sake of clarity during this paper be using the standard of "Poqed Avon Avot" as a short marker for individual responsibility. I realize, of course, that it is usually taken as simply intergenerational punishment, but as I will delineate, it was seen from the biblical period through the early medieval period as much more.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09018329708585121
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10.1080/09018329708585121
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21/12/1997
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18 476