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Archival Historiography in Jewish Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Archival Historiography in Jewish Antiquity (Hardcover)
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The question of how the Bible received its unusual form has been a
question addressed by scholars since critical study of the text
began. Early attention focused on the Pentateuch and the Primary
History. Archival Historiography in Jewish Antiquity argues that
Ezra and Nehemiah, late texts sometimes overlooked in such
discussions, reveal another piece of this longstanding puzzle.
Laura Carlson Hasler suggests that the concept of archival
historiography makes sense of Ezra and Nehemiah's unusual format
and place in the Bible. Adapting the symbolic quality of ancient
Near Eastern archives to their own purposes, the writers of these
books found archiving an expression of religious and social power
in a colonized context. Using the book of Esther as a comparative
example, Carlson Hasler addresses literary disruption, a form
unpalatable to modern readers, as an expected element of archival
historiography. This book argues that archiving within the
experience of trauma is more than sophisticated history writing,
and in fact served to facilitate Judean recovery after the losses
of exile.
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