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    It is not the case that The idea of ECT was widely accepted by intertestamental Jews

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    • 1.Josephus documents that the Sadducees, a major Jewish sect of the period, rejected any form of afterlife punishment whatsoever.
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    • 2.Scholarly works by George Nickelsburg and N.T. Wright demonstrate that resurrection and judgment concepts varied dramatically across Jewish factions.
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    • 3.Inferring 'wide acceptance' of ECT from selective textual evidence commits the fallacy of unrepresentative sampling in historical theology.
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    • 1.Intertestamental Jewish literature displays significant eschatological diversity, including annihilationist views in texts like 1 Enoch 10 and Psalms of Solomon.
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    • 2.Judith 16:17 is a single deuterocanonical text and cannot establish 'wide acceptance' across the pluralistic Second Temple Jewish milieu.
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    • 1.Judith 16:17 supports ECT
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    • 2.If the above is true, the ECT was widely accepted by intertestamental Jews
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