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This volume sheds light on how particular constructions of the
'Other' contributed to an ongoing process of defining what 'Israel'
or an 'Israelite' was, or was supposed to be in literature taken to
be authoritative in the late Persian and Early Hellenistic periods.
It asks, who is an insider and who an outsider? Are boundaries
permeable? Are there different ideas expressed within individual
books? What about constructions of the (partial) 'Other' from
inside, e.g., women, people whose body did not fit social
constructions of normalness? It includes chapters dealing with
theoretical issues and case studies, and addresses similar issues
from the perspective of groups in the late Second Temple period so
as to shed light on processes of continuity and discontinuity on
these matters. Preliminary forms of five of the contributions were
presented in Thessaloniki in 2011 in the research programme,
'Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the Persian and
Hellenistic Period,' at the Annual Meeting of European Association
of Biblical Studies (EABS).
Water is a vital resource and is widely acknowledged as such. Thus
it often serves as an ideological and linguistic symbol that stands
for and evokes concepts central within a community. This volume
explores 'thinking of water' and concepts expressed through
references to water within the symbolic system of the late
Persian/early Hellenistic period and as it does so it sheds light
on the social mindscape of the early Second Temple community.
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.
The editors have organized a long-term research program on Israel
and the Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the
Persian and Hellenistic Periods at the Annual Meeting of the
European Association of Biblical Studies. The first announced topic
of enquiry was the construction of prophecy and prophetic books
during the Persian period, for which dedicated sessions were held
at the EABS meetings in 2006 and 2007. The present volume includes
revised versions of the presentations made by Rainer Albertz, Ehud
Ben Zvi, Philip R. Davies, Diana Edelman, Erhard S. Gerstenberger,
Ernst Axel Knauf, Thomas C. R?mer, and Rannfrid I. Thelle. The
general image that emerges from the volume is that of biblical
prophecy as a written phenomenon, though perhaps open to selected
public readings. The relationship between prophetic and other
authoritative written texts (e.g., the Book of Kings, the
Deuteronomistic History) is explored, as well as the general social
and ideological setting in which the prophetic books emerged. The
volume deals with the construction of images of prophets of the
past and relates them to the general construction of the past in
Yehud. It includes both general, methodological and comparative
contributions and studies on particular issues/books (e.g.,
Deutero-Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos and Jonah).
In ancient Israelite literature Exile is seen as a central turning
point within the course of the history of Israel. In these texts
"the Exile" is a central ideological concept. It serves to explain
the destruction of the monarchic polities and the social and
economic disasters associated with them in terms that YHWH punished
Israel/Judah for having abandoned his ways. As it develops an image
of an unjust Israel, it creates one of a just deity. But YHWH is
not only imagined as just, but also as loving and forgiving, for
the exile is presented as a transitory state: Exile is deeply
intertwined with its discursive counterpart, the certain "Return".
As the Exile comes to be understood as a necessary purification or
preparation for a renewal of YHWH's proper relationship with
Israel, the seemingly unpleasant Exilic conditions begin,
discursively, to shape an image of YHWH as loving Israel and
teaching it. Exile is dystopia, but one that carries in itself all
the seeds of utopia. The concept of Exile continued to exercise an
important influence in the discourses of Israel in the Second
Temple period, and was eventually influential in the production of
eschatological visions.
The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche
Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old
Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms
in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring
cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.
In this volume, a list of esteemed scholars engage with the
literary readings of prophetic and poetic texts in the Hebrew Bible
that revolve around sensitivity to the complexity of language, the
fragility of meaning, and the interplay of texts. These themes are
discussed using a variety of hermeneutical strategies. In Part 1,
Poets and Poetry, some essays address the nature of poetic language
itself, while others play with themes of love, beauty, and nature
in specific poetic texts. The essays in Part 2, Prophets and
Prophecy, consider prophets and prophecy from a number of
interpretive directions, moving from internal literary analysis to
the reception of these texts and their imagery in a range of
ancient and modern contexts. Those in Part 3, on the other hand,
Texts in Play, take more recent works (from Shakespeare to Tove
Jansson's Moomin books for children) as their point of departure,
developing conversations between texts across the centuries that
enrich the readings of both the ancient and modern pieces of
literature.
The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche
Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old
Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms
in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring
cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.
This book explores the role of the biblical patriarch Abraham in
the formation and use of authoritative texts in the Persian and
Hellenistic periods. It reflects a conference session in 2009
focusing on Abraham as a figure of cultural memory in the
literature of these periods. Cultural memory is the shared
reproduction and recalling of what has been learned and retained.
It also involves transformation and innovation. As a figure of
memory, stories of Abraham served as guidelines for
identity-formation and authoritative illustration of behaviour for
the emerging Jewish communities.
This volume celebrates the contribution of Diana V. Edelman to the
field and celebrates her personally as researcher, teacher, mentor,
colleague, and mastermind of new research paths and groups. It
salutes her unconventional, constantly thinking and rethinking
outside the box and her challenging of established consensuses. It
includes essays addressing biblical themes and texts,
archaeological fieldwork, historical method, social memory and
reception history. Contributors include Yairah Amit, James
Anderson, Bob Becking, Ehud Ben Zvi, Kare Berge, Anne
Fitzpatrick-McKinley, Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher, Lester L. Grabbe,
Philippe Guillaume, David Hamidovic, Lowell K. Handy, Maria Hausl,
Kristin Joachimsen, Christoph Levin, Aren M. Maeir, Lynette
Mitchell, Reinhard Muller, Jorunn Okland, Daniel Pioske, Thomas
Romer, Benedetta Rossi, Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Jason Silverman,
Steinar Skarpnes, Pauline A. Viviano, Anne-Mareike Wetter.
The editors have organized a long-term research program on Israel
and the Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the
Persian and Hellenistic Periods at the Annual Meeting of the
European Association of Biblical Studies. The first announced topic
of enquiry was the construction of prophecy and prophetic books
during the Persian period, for which dedicated sessions were held
at the EABS meetings in 2006 and 2007. The present volume includes
revised versions of the presentations made by Rainer Albertz, Ehud
Ben Zvi, Philip R. Davies, Diana Edelman, Erhard S. Gerstenberger,
Ernst Axel Knauf, Thomas C. R?mer, and Rannfrid I. Thelle. The
general image that emerges from the volume is that of biblical
prophecy as a written phenomenon, though perhaps open to selected
public readings. The relationship between prophetic and other
authoritative written texts (e.g., the Book of Kings, the
Deuteronomistic History) is explored, as well as the general social
and ideological setting in which the prophetic books emerged. The
volume deals with the construction of images of prophets of the
past and relates them to the general construction of the past in
Yehud. It includes both general, methodological and comparative
contributions and studies on particular issues/books (e.g.,
Deutero-Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos and Jonah).
History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles is a
collection of studies published in the last fifteen years. The
cumulative weight of these studies leads to a new understanding of
the Book of Chronicles, its balanced and nuanced theology,
historiographical approach and the way in which the book serves to
reshape the social memory of its intended readership, in accordance
with its own multiple viewpoints and the knowledge of the past held
by its community. This volume shows that Chronicles communicates to
its intended readership a theological worldview built around
multiple, partial perspectives informing and balancing each other.
Significantly, it is a worldview in which the limitations of even
theologically proper knowledge are emphasized. For instance, in
Chronicles' past similar deeds may and at times did lead to very
different results. Thus, even if most of the past is presented to
the readers as explainable, it also affirms that those who
inhabited it could not predict the path of future events.
Chronicles is therefore, a storiographical work that informs its
readers that historical and theological knowledge does not enable
prediction of future events. poignantly construes some of the most
crucial events in Israel's social memory as unexplainable in human
terms. Thus, Chronicles communicates to its readers that some of
YHWH's most influential decisions concerning Israel cannot be
predicted or explained. It is against this background of human
limitation in understanding causes and effects in a past (present
and future) governed by YHWH and the uncertainty that it brings,
that the emphasis on divinely ordained, prescriptive behaviour
should be seen. The intellectual horizon of Chronicles was perhaps
not so far from that of the interpretative frame of Job or Qohelet,
and of these books as a whole.
History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles is a
collection of studies published in the last fifteen years. The
cumulative weight of these studies leads to a new understanding of
the Book of Chronicles, its balanced and nuanced theology,
historiographical approach and the way in which the book serves to
reshape the social memory of its intended readership, in accordance
with its own multiple viewpoints and the knowledge of the past held
by its community. This volume shows that Chronicles communicates to
its intended readership a theological worldview built around
multiple, partial perspectives informing and balancing each other.
Significantly, it is a worldview in which the limitations of even
theologically proper knowledge are emphasized. For instance, in
Chronicles' past similar deeds may and at times did lead to very
different results. Thus, even if most of the past is presented to
the readers as explainable, it also affirms that those who
inhabited it could not predict the path of future events.
Chronicles is therefore, a storiographical work that informs its
readers that historical and theological knowledge does not enable
prediction of future events. poignantly construes some of the most
crucial events in Israel's social memory as unexplainable in human
terms. Thus, Chronicles communicates to its readers that some of
YHWH's most influential decisions concerning Israel cannot be
predicted or explained. It is against this background of human
limitation in understanding causes and effects in a past (present
and future) governed by YHWH and the uncertainty that it brings,
that the emphasis on divinely ordained, prescriptive behaviour
should be seen. The intellectual horizon of Chronicles was perhaps
not so far from that of the interpretative frame of Job or Qohelet,
and of these books as a whole.
Social memory studies offer an under-utilised lens through which to
approach the texts of the Hebrew Bible. In this volume, the range
of associations and symbolic values evoked by twenty-one characters
representing ancestors and founders, kings, female characters, and
prophets are explored by a group of international scholars. The
presumed social settings when most of the books comprising the
TANAK had come into existence and were being read together as an
emerging authoritative corpus are the late Persian and early
Hellenistic periods. It is in this context then that we can
profitably explore the symbolic values and networks of meanings
that biblical figures encoded for the religious community of Israel
in these eras, drawing on our limited knowledge of issues and life
in Yehud and Judean diasporic communities in these periods. This is
the first period when scholars can plausibly try to understand the
mnemonic effects of these texts, which were understood to encode
the collective experience members of the community, providing them
with a common identity by offering a sense of shared past while
defining aspirations for the future. The introduction and the
concluding essay focus on theoretical and methodological issues
that arise from analysing the Hebrew Bible in the framework of
memory studies. The individual character studies, as a group,
provide a kaleidoscopic view of the potentialities of using a
social memory approach in Biblical Studies, with the essay on Cyrus
written by a classicist, in order to provide an enriching
perspective on how one biblical figure was construed in Greek
social memory, for comparative purposes.
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.
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.
Ehud Ben Zvi has been at the forefront of exploring how the study
of social memory contributes to our understanding of the
intellectual worldof the literati of the early Second Temple period
and their textual repertoire. Many of his studies on the matter and
several new relevant works are here collected together providing a
very useful resource for furthering research and teaching in this
area. The essays included here address, inter alia, prophets as
sites of memory, kings as sites memory, Jerusalem as a site of
memory, a mnemonic system shaped by two interacting 'national'
histories, matters of identity and othering as framed and explored
via memories, mnemonic metanarratives making sense of the past and
serving various didactic purposes and their problems, memories of
past and futures events shared by the literati, issues of gender
constructions and memory, memories understood by the group as
'counterfactual' and their importance, and, in multiple ways, how
and why shared memories served as a (safe) playground for exploring
multiple, central ideological issues within the group and of
generative grammars governing systemic preferences and
dis-preferences for particular memories.
In this volume, a list of esteemed scholars engage with the
literary readings of prophetic and poetic texts in the Hebrew Bible
that revolve around sensitivity to the complexity of language, the
fragility of meaning, and the interplay of texts. These themes are
discussed using a variety of hermeneutical strategies. In Part 1,
Poets and Poetry, some essays address the nature of poetic language
itself, while others play with themes of love, beauty, and nature
in specific poetic texts. The essays in Part 2, Prophets and
Prophecy, consider prophets and prophecy from a number of
interpretive directions, moving from internal literary analysis to
the reception of these texts and their imagery in a range of
ancient and modern contexts. Those in Part 3, on the other hand,
Texts in Play, take more recent works (from Shakespeare to Tove
Jansson's Moomin books for children) as their point of departure,
developing conversations between texts across the centuries that
enrich the readings of both the ancient and modern pieces of
literature.
In this new and refreshing approach to the story, Ben Zvi starts
with the premise that Jonah, like most books, was written to be
read. He therefore concentrates on intended and unintended
readership(s) of Jonah and the network of messages that they were
likely to derive through their reading and rereading. He starts
with the historical and social matrix of the production and reading
of the book in antiquity, analyzes its self-critical approach and
its metaprophetic character as a comment on the genre of prophetic
books and on prophets. How does the historical fact of Nineveh's
destruction acually shape the reading? Or the perception of Jonah
as a runaway slave?Ben Zvi demonstrates the malleability of
interpretation of the Book of Jonah and its limitations, as
attested in different communities of readers. He asks why certain
messages are easily accepted by particular historical communities,
whereas others are not raised at all.>
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The Forms of the Old Testament Literature Series has long been
acknowledged as a unique and valuable commentary on the Old
Testament. The volumes in the FOTL series are specifically
concerned to explore the structure, genre, setting, and intention
of each type of biblical literature so the fullest possible meaning
of Scripture can be uncovered. This new addition to the FOTL
commentary series presents a complete form-critical analysis of the
book of Micah. Ehud Ben Zvi looks at how Micah was read by its
ancient audience and explores the social setting that stands behind
it. Emphasis is placed on the construction of the past, on the
images of the future, and on the relevance of both of these to the
present of the community or communities of readers for whom the
book was intended. His various lines of investigation lead to a
deeper understanding of Micah and its enduring message.
This volume celebrates the contribution of Diana V. Edelman to the
field and celebrates her personally as researcher, teacher, mentor,
colleague, and mastermind of new research paths and groups. It
salutes her unconventional, constantly thinking and rethinking
outside the box and her challenging of established consensuses. It
includes essays addressing biblical themes and texts,
archaeological fieldwork, historical method, social memory and
reception history. Contributors include Yairah Amit, James
Anderson, Bob Becking, Ehud Ben Zvi, Kare Berge, Anne
Fitzpatrick-McKinley, Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher, Lester L. Grabbe,
Philippe Guillaume, David Hamidovic, Lowell K. Handy, Maria Hausl,
Kristin Joachimsen, Christoph Levin, Aren M. Maeir, Lynette
Mitchell, Reinhard Muller, Jorunn Okland, Daniel Pioske, Thomas
Romer, Benedetta Rossi, Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Jason Silverman,
Steinar Skarpnes, Pauline A. Viviano, Anne-Mareike Wetter.
This volume sheds light on how particular constructions of the
'Other' contributed to an ongoing process of defining what 'Israel'
or an 'Israelite' was, or was supposed to be in literature taken to
be authoritative in the late Persian and Early Hellenistic periods.
It asks, who is an insider and who an outsider? Are boundaries
permeable? Are there different ideas expressed within individual
books? What about constructions of the (partial) 'Other' from
inside, e.g., women, people whose body did not fit social
constructions of normalness? It includes chapters dealing with
theoretical issues and case studies, and addresses similar issues
from the perspective of groups in the late Second Temple period so
as to shed light on processes of continuity and discontinuity on
these matters. Preliminary forms of five of the contributions were
presented in Thessaloniki in 2011 in the research programme,
'Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the Persian and
Hellenistic Period,' at the Annual Meeting of European Association
of Biblical Studies (EABS).
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.
This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in
Volume 9 (2009) of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.
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