Alongside ‘Mosaic discourse’, Second Temple period authors increasingly looked to Abraham as a source of instruction and authority. This article focuses on the growing importance of the Abrahamic covenant through the lens of five re-tellings of Israel's history that link the past with the present: the Damascus Document, the Apocalypse of Weeks, 4 Ezra, Nehemiah 9, and Galatians. This article argues that various authors placed themselves within a historical narrative that spotlighted the Abrahamic covenant in order to identify themselves as the elect and demarcate the boundaries separating them from the non-elect. The ideological orientation of each text can account for why the Abrahamic covenant, rather than the later Mosaic pact, became the basis for identity politics.

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当历史重演时：犹太早期著作中亚伯拉罕盟约的神学意义

除“马赛克话语”外，第二神殿时期的作者越来越多地将亚伯拉罕视为指示和权威的来源。本文通过将过去与现在联系在一起的五个以色列历史重述的镜头，着眼于亚伯拉罕盟约的日益重要：大马士革文献，《世界启示录》，《以斯拉记》第4章，《尼希米记》第9章和《加拉太书》。本文认为，各种作者将自己置于一个历史叙事中，该历史叙事突出了亚伯拉罕盟约，以便将自己确定为选民，并划定将他们与非选民分开的边界。每个文本的意识形态取向都可以解释为什么亚伯拉罕盟约而不是后来的摩西条约成为了身份政治的基础。