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From Babylon to Eternity - The Exile Remembered and Constructed in Text and Tradition (Hardcover)
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From Babylon to Eternity - The Exile Remembered and Constructed in Text and Tradition (Hardcover)
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Generally, readers have a negative idea of the Exile. Psalm 137 has
fuelled the idea that this was a time of sorrow and despair. This
image of the Exile influenced, for instance, Luther's ideas on the
Babylonian Captivity of the Church. The four essays in this volume
deconstruct and reconstruct this image. Bob Becking tries to
recreate a history of the exile. On the basis of the available
evidence, this could be no more than a fragmented history,
nevertheless showing that the fate of the exiles was not as bad as
often supposed. Anne Mareike Wetter reveals that the biblical image
of exile is multi facetted. She shows how a tradition of a people
tied to their God-given land was challenged by the reality of
foreign occupation. And how that people eventually succeeded in
translating this experience, appropriating them through a
transformation into a counter-tradition that enabled them to cope
with the new situation, without breaking entirely with their
cultural and religious heritage. Jewish ideas on Exile are
discussed by Wilfred van der Poll. He concentrates on the use of
the concept of galut, which refers to the paradigmatic and
identity-shaping function of the dispersion of the people of Israel
and showed that the exile in Jewish thinking had become a permanent
reality up until the present day. From the perspective of
intertextual reading, Alex Cannegieter discusses four texts of
varying ages and background - Augustine, Petrarch, Luther, and a
Dutch sermon held after the end of the Second World War. She
explores the ways authors chose biblical texts to appropriate them
a new context, thereby changing the meaning of the new, as well as
the source texts.
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