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"If the promised series of books on the biblical Torah to follow
adhere to the high standard of scholarship, simplicity of language,
ease of prose, and joy-in-reading of this volume they will be
extremely useful." - Jim West, Quartz Hill School of Theology "The
work is scholarly but accessible...the introduction makes a
valuable contribution. Essential." - Choice Opening the Books of
Moses presents an introduction to the first five books of the Old
Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. It
is written for any student engaged in the scholarly study of these
most important of biblical texts. The aim throughout is to examine
the books with a view to illuminating the ideas, beliefs and
experiences of the time. The book presents a broad overview, which
provides a survey of the current state of Pentateuchal research; an
analysis of how the texts were shaped by their time and audience;
an outline of Jewish areas in the Persian period; and an
examination of key concerns and topics, notably the Torah,
geography, ethnicity, Yahweh and other deities, theories of cult,
treaties and oaths, and Moses. The book is the first volume in a
six volume collection within the BibleWorld series that will
explore in detail each of the individual books of the Pentateuch in
turn. This first volume sets the stage as serves as a general
introduction.
"If the promised series of books on the biblical Torah to follow
adhere to the high standard of scholarship, simplicity of language,
ease of prose, and joy-in-reading of this volume they will be
extremely useful." - Jim West, Quartz Hill School of Theology "The
work is scholarly but accessible...the introduction makes a
valuable contribution. Essential." - Choice Opening the Books of
Moses presents an introduction to the first five books of the Old
Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. It
is written for any student engaged in the scholarly study of these
most important of biblical texts. The aim throughout is to examine
the books with a view to illuminating the ideas, beliefs and
experiences of the time. The book presents a broad overview, which
provides a survey of the current state of Pentateuchal research; an
analysis of how the texts were shaped by their time and audience;
an outline of Jewish areas in the Persian period; and an
examination of key concerns and topics, notably the Torah,
geography, ethnicity, Yahweh and other deities, theories of cult,
treaties and oaths, and Moses. The book is the first volume in a
six volume collection within the BibleWorld series that will
explore in detail each of the individual books of the Pentateuch in
turn. This first volume sets the stage as serves as a general
introduction.
The theme of leadership played an important role in ancient Israel
and its discourse. It was explored time and again through memories
of proper, improper and in-between leaders and through memories of
particular institutions like monarchy, priesthood, and prophethood.
The ways in which this theme was shaped, reflected and explored
through social memory and how, in turn, those memories played a
socializing role within the community is the focus of this
collection of essays. Although the nature and limitations of
kingship, both native and foreign, is a central theme of many of
the essays, the volume includes discussions of both official and
unofficial local leadership within an empire setting, alternatives
to royal leadership like theocracy, charismatic judgeship, and
Greek-style tyrants, as well as considerations of Greek political
discourse on the best type of leadership.
Ancient Mesopotamian, biblical, rabbinic, and Christian literature
was created and transmitted by the intellectual elite and therefore
presents their world views and perspectives. This volume
investigates for the first time whether and to what extent
religious knowledge - e.g., "sacred" narratives, customary
practices, legal rules, family traditions, festival observances -
was accessible to and known by ordinary people beyond religious
functionaries. Which contexts (e.g., family, synagogue and church,
private and public study, communal rituals) enabled the
dissemination and acquisition of religious knowledge beyond
scholarly circles? In which forms other than written texts was such
knowledge available and who (e.g., parents, teachers, scribes,
rabbis, priests, monks) mediated it to a public that was largely
illiterate? Can we assume that the majority of those who identified
themselves as Jewish or Christian would have possessed a "working
knowledge" of the respective religious traditions and customary
practices? Would that knowledge have differed from one person to
another, depending on gender, socio-economic status, religious
commitment, and the general circumstances in which one lived? This
book is the first collaborative interdisciplinary study of this
important subject area with chapters written by international
experts on ancient Mesopotamia, the Hebrew Bible, Qumran
literature, rabbinic literature, and early Christianity including
apocrypha and monastic traditions.
This volume highlights and advances new developments in the study
of Edom and Idumea in eighteen essays written by researchers from
different disciplines (History, Archaeology, Assyriology,
Epigraphy, Memory Studies, and Hebrew Bible studies). The topics
examined include the emergence of Idumea, the evolution of
Edomite/Idumean identity, the impact of the Arabian trade on the
region, comparative and regional studies of Idumea and Judah,
studies of specific sites, artifacts, epigraphic and literary
sources, and a section on literary and ideological constructions
and memories of Edom reflected in the Hebrew Bible. This volume is
a go-to place for all who are interested in the current state of
research about these matters.
The theme of leadership played an important role in ancient Israel
and its discourse. It was explored time and again through memories
of proper, improper and in-between leaders and through memories of
particular institutions like monarchy, priesthood, and prophethood.
The ways in which this theme was shaped, reflected and explored
through social memory and how, in turn, those memories played a
socializing role within the community is the focus of this
collection of essays. Although the nature and limitations of
kingship, both native and foreign, is a central theme of many of
the essays, the volume includes discussions of both official and
unofficial local leadership within an empire setting, alternatives
to royal leadership like theocracy, charismatic judgeship, and
Greek-style tyrants, as well as considerations of Greek political
discourse on the best type of leadership.
Ehud Ben Zvi is one of the foremost scholars in the field of Hebrew
Bible today. He has had a global impact both as a researcher and as
a teacher, and he continues to create cutting-edge research that is
helping to shape the future of the field. This volume marks his
upcoming retirement from the University of Alberta and honors him
and his career as a scholar and educator. Thirty-one papers written
by a select group of colleagues, including several former students
and a former teacher, are presented under three sub-headings:
History and Historiography; Prophecy and Prophetic Books; and
Methods, Observations, (Re)Readings. These categories represent the
wide-ranging interests of Ehud himself and include contributions on
the Bible as social memory, for which he has been a leading
advocate and theorist in the past decade. Contributors include R.
Albertz, Y. Amit, B. Becking, K. Berge, M. J. Boda, A.
Brenner-Idan, P. R. Davies, D. V. Edelman, M. H. Floyd, S.
Gilmayr-Bucher, L. L. Grabbe, P. Guillaume, L. Jonker, G. N.
Knoppers, S. Kostamo, F. Landy, T. Langille, C. Levin, J. R.
Linville, W. Morrow, C. Nihan, S. B. Noegel, J. Nogalski, R.
Müller, N. Na?aman, R. Nelson, F. Polak, K. Ristau, P. J. Sabo, C.
Walsh, and I. D. Wilson. Readers, regardless of their areas of
specialization, will find many stimulating and thought-provoking
contributions in the collection, which is fitting, given the
boundary-pushing work of the honoree.
Ancient cities served as the actual, worldly landscape populated by
"material" sites of memory. Some of these sites were personal and
others were directly and intentionally involved in the shaping of a
collective social memory, such as palaces, temples, inscriptions,
walls, and gates. Many cities were also sites of social memory in a
very different way. Like Babylon, Nineveh, or Jerusalem, they
served as ciphers that activated and communicated various mnemonic
worlds as they integrated multiple images, remembered events, and
provided a variety of meanings in diverse ancient communities.
Memory and the City in Ancient Israel contributes to the study of
social memory in ancient Israel in the late Persian and early
Hellenistic periods by exploring "the city," both urban spaces and
urban centers. It opens with a study that compares basic
conceptualizing tendencies of cities in Mesopotamia with their
counterparts in ancient Israel. Its essays then explore memories of
gates, domestic spaces, threshing floors, palaces, city gardens and
parks, natural and "domesticated" water in urban settings,
cisterns, and wells. Finally, the studies turn to particular cities
of memory in ancient Israel: Jerusalem, Samaria, Shechem, Mizpah,
Tyre, Nineveh, and Babylon. The volume, which emerged from meetings
of the European Association of Biblical Studies, includes the work
of Stephanie Anthonioz, Yairah Amit, Ehud Ben Zvi, KAYre Berge,
Diana Edelman, Hadi Ghantous, Anne Katrine Gudme, Philippe
Guillaume, Russell Hobson, Steven W. Holloway, Francis Landy,
Daniel Pioske, Ulrike Sals, Carla Sulzbach, Karolien Vermeulen, and
Carey Walsh.
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