entity · people_jews_later_context
Jewish identities
Also known as: Jews
Plural later identities formed through changing Judean, religious, ethnic, legal, and diasporic meanings; not a uniform label for 1600-800 BCE.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
600 BCE–1 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · defines
The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties — Shaye J. D. Cohen (1999)Explains later formation and boundary changes.
Locator: entire monograph - informs · defines
‘Jew’ and Related Terms in the Ancient World — Stephen G. Wilson (2004)Provides terminology history.
Locator: pp. 157-182
Research description
Plural later identities formed through changing Judean, religious, ethnic, legal, and diasporic meanings; not a uniform label for 1600-800 BCE. The record preserves the distinction between source label, archaeological pattern, political formation, and later identity.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Contextual record outside primary interval
A later or earlier record retained because it directly tests a claim, terminology, reception, or consequence inside the primary interval.
Why does this record have this property?
Later Jewish identities are retained only to prevent anachronistic projection.
- The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties
defines · formation of Jewishness
Evidence and sources
- informs · defines
The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties — Shaye J. D. Cohen (1999)Explains later formation and boundary changes.
Locator: entire monograph - informs · defines
‘Jew’ and Related Terms in the Ancient World — Stephen G. Wilson (2004)Provides terminology history.
Locator: pp. 157-182
Referenced records
- Jerusalem and southern highlands · entity