Ethnicity And Identity In Ancient Israel

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Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Israel

Author : Kenton L. Sparks
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 1575060337
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Israel written by Kenton L. Sparks and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the introduction: "When we speak of ethnicity, we bring into view a particular kind of sentiment about group identity wherein groups of individuals view themselves as being alike by virtue of their common ancestry. It is something of a truism to point out that ethnicity has played an important role in the history of Judaism, both in the postbiblical era and prior to it....The reason for this interest is twofold. First, in virtually every discipline of the humanities, there seems to be a general unhappiness with the superficial way that scholars have handled the issues of culture and identity. More specifically, with respect to ancient Israel, recent biblical scholarly activity--both literary and historical--has raised serious doubts about the supposed origins and antiquity of Israelite ethnicity." With this agenda in view, Kent Sparks provides a summary of current studies in ethnicity and ethnic identity, then moves to a discussion of Israel's ancient Near Eastern context and expressions of ethnic identity in the written remains from surrounding nations. Turning next to ancient Israel itself, he examines texts generally considered early in Israel's history for information relevant to Israel's ethnic identity. Sparks then investigates the witness of the prophets and the historical materials relating to the Judean monarchy and the exilic period, looking for expressions of ethnic sentiment. His research will likely prove to be the foundation on which future study of the topic will be built.

Ancient Israelite Identity: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Land of Israel

Author : Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781793020598
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)

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Book Synopsis Ancient Israelite Identity: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Land of Israel by : Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez

Download or read book Ancient Israelite Identity: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Land of Israel written by Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the principal theological themes of the Hebrew Bible is the relationship between Israel and God. At the heart of this bond is the supernatural experience at Sinai. The Torah focuses on the uniqueness of God and His relationship with the people of Israel. The singularity of this relationship amidst surrounding polytheistic cultures is so much emphasized that Israel's principal contribution to the world of religious ideology is often regarded as uncompromising covenantal monotheism. Israelite identity and in later centuries Jewish identity was also expressed in terms of ethnicity and a special connection to the land of Israel. This book provides an introduction to these topics.

Religion, Ethnicity, and Identity in Ancient Galilee

Author : Jürgen Zangenberg
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161490446
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis Religion, Ethnicity, and Identity in Ancient Galilee by : Jürgen Zangenberg

Download or read book Religion, Ethnicity, and Identity in Ancient Galilee written by Jürgen Zangenberg and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2007 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a Galilean? What were the criteria of defining a person as a Galilean - archaeologically or with respect to literary sources such as Josephus or the rabbis? What role did religion play in the process of identity formation? Twenty-two articles based on papers read at conferences at Cambridge, Wuppertal and Yale by experts from 7 countries shed light on a complex region, the pivotal geographic and cultural context of both earliest Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. In these papers, ancient Galilee emerges as a dynamic region of continuous change, in which religion, 'ethnicity', and 'identity' were not static monoliths but had to be negotiated in the context of a multiform environment subject to different influences.

Community Identity in Judean Historiography

Author : Gary N. Knoppers
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575066114
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Community Identity in Judean Historiography by : Gary N. Knoppers

Download or read book Community Identity in Judean Historiography written by Gary N. Knoppers and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the essays in this volume stem from the special sessions of the Historiography Seminar of the Canadian Society for Biblical Studies, held in the late spring of 2007 (University of Saskatchewan). The papers in these focused sessions dealt with issues of self-identification, community identity, and ethnicity in Judahite and Yehudite historiography. The scholars present addressed a range of issues, such as the understanding, presentation, and delimitation of “Israel” in various biblical texts, the relationship of Israelites to Judahites in Judean historical writings, the definition of Israel over against other peoples, and the possible reasons why the ethnoreligious community (“Israel”) was the focus of Judahite/Yehudite historiography. Papers approached these matters from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary vantage points. For example, some pursued an inner-biblical perspective (pentateuchal sources/writings, Former Prophets, Latter Prophets, Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah), while others pursued a cross-cultural comparative perspective (ancient Near Eastern, ancient Greek and Hellenistic historiographies, Western and non-Western historiographic traditions). Still others attempted to relate the material remains to the question of community identity in northern Israel, monarchic Judah, and postmonarchic Yehud.

Israel's Ethnogenesis

Author : Avraham Faust
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134942087
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Israel's Ethnogenesis written by Avraham Faust and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner (for best semi-popular book) of the 2008 Irene Levi-Sala Prize for publications on the archaeology of Israel. The emergence of Israel in Canaan is a central topic in biblical/Syro-Palestinian archaeology. However, the archaeology of ancient Israel has rarely been subject to in-depth anthropological analysis until now. 'Israel's Ethnogenesis' offers an anthropological framework to the archaeological data and textual sources. Examining archaeological finds from thousands of excavations, the book presents a theoretical approach to Israel's ethnogenesis that draws on the work of recent critics. The book examines Israelite ethnicity - ranging from meat consumption, decorated and imported pottery, Israelite houses, circumcision, and hierarchy - and traces the complex ethnic negotiations that accompanied Israel's ethnogenesis. Israel's Ethnogenesis is unique in its contribution to the archaeology of ethnicity, offering an anthropological study that will be of interest to students of history, Israelite culture and religion, and the evolution of ethnic groups.

Walking in Their Sandals

Author : Markus Cromhout
Publisher : Cascade Books
ISBN 13 : 9781498211772
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Walking in Their Sandals written by Markus Cromhout and published by Cascade Books. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume invites readers to walk in Israelite sandals, that is, to take a journey of the imagination, and to immerse themselves in the identity, values, and institutions of first-century CE Israelites with the help of contemporary social-scientific studies and theories. What emerges is that the Israelites did not practice a religion. Rather, they were an ethnos, or as this book describes it, an ethnic identity, who lived out a particular way of life and culture the customs of the fathers. It is to belong to a people who obtained their collective identity, honor, and sense of worth from their socialization and membership in Israel and from the social convention of loyalty to their rich cultural tradition. It was to belong to a ""world,"" or having a perspective on the world with its own quality of ""knowledge,"" which, among other things, preferred collectivism over individualism, and orthopraxy over orthodoxy. ""Cromhaut tidily synthesizes Social Identity Theory, Social Construction of Reality theory, Primordial and Constructionist theories of ethnicity, the importance of group practices for ethnic boundary marking, and ethnicity models. He details ancient Israel as a boundary-marking ethnic group and Paul's offering an alternative ethnos--new core values and a new, inclusive way of life. This informed, informative, readable study will engage and reward both introductory students and advanced scholars."" --Dennis C. Duling Emeritus Professor Canisius College, Buffalo, New York ""Utilizing ethnicity theory and other social sciences with sophistication and insight, Markus Cromhout challenges many assumptions of what it meant to be a first-century Judean. In the process he also questions traditional understandings of the apostle Paul's entire enterprise, as well as significant aspects of the New Perspective on Paul. He provides, in addition, an intriguing answer as to why most Israelites rejected Paul's message. His excellent summaries are themselves worth the price of the book."" --Walter F. Taylor Jr. Ernest W. and Edith S. Ogram Professor of New Testament Studies Trinity Lutheran Seminary ""Cromhout has written an absolutely essential book in which he connects central topics of the New Perspective on Paul with insights about their social and cultural background within the ancient Mediterranean world. Based on a complex and well argued socio-cultural model of Israelite ethnic identity, the book deepens our understanding of Pauline concepts like 'works of the law, ' 'faith/belief, ' 'righteousness, ' etc., and traces them back to their contemporary discourses."" --Wolfgang Stegemann Augustana-Hochschule, Germany Markus Cromhout is a Research Associate in the Department of New Testament Studies at the University of Pretoria. He is the author of Jesus and Identity: Reconstructing Judean Ethnicity in Q (Cascade Books, 2007).

Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity

Author : Dermot Anthony Nestor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567468003
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity written by Dermot Anthony Nestor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity breaks new ground in the study of ethnic identity in the ancient world through the articulation of an explicitly cognitive perspective. In presenting a view of ethnicity as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity, this work seeks to correct the pronounced tendency towards 'analytical groupism' in the academic literature. Challenging what Pierre Bourdieu has called 'our primary inclination to think the world in a substantialist manner,' this study seeks to break with the vernacular categories and 'commonsense primordialisms' encoded within the Biblical texts, whilst at the same time accounting for their tenacious hold on our social and political imagination. It is the recognition of the performative and reifying potential of these categories of ethno-political practice that disqualifies their appropriation as categories of social analysis.

Ethnicity and the Bible

Author : Mark Brett
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004493549
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity and the Bible written by Mark Brett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary social theory has been much concerned with the re-assertion of ethnic identities in both Western and non-Western politics. This international collection of twenty-one essays contributes to the wider conversation by examining the construction and contestation of ethnic identities both within the Bible itself and in biblical interpretation. An introductory essay brings into focus the main themes of the book - ethnocentrism, indigenity, concepts of culture and the politics of identity - and highlights the ethical issues arising. Part One explores selected texts from the Hebrew Bible and from the New Testament, making use of methodological perspectives drawn from a range of disciplines. Part Two, Culture and Interpretation, looks at examples of how ethnicity figures both in the popular use of the Bible and in professional biblical interpretation. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel

Author : Andrew Tobolowsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009089137
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel written by Andrew Tobolowsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel is the first study to treat the history of claims to an Israelite identity as an ongoing historical phenomenon from biblical times to the present. By treating the Hebrew Bible's accounts of Israel as one of many efforts to construct an Israelite history, rather than source material for later legends, Andrew Tobolowsky brings a long-term comparative approach to biblical and nonbiblical “Israelite” histories. In the process, he sheds new light on how the structure of the twelve tribes tradition enables the creation of so many different visions of Israel, and generates new questions: How can we explain the enduring power of the myth of the twelve tribes of Israel? How does “becoming Israel” work, why has it proven so popular, and how did it change over time? Finally, what can the changing shape of Israel itself reveal about those who claimed it?

Narrative History and Ethnic Boundaries

Author : E. Theodore Mullen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Narrative History and Ethnic Boundaries written by E. Theodore Mullen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity

Author : Ann E. Killebrew
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589836774
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Book Synopsis Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity by : Ann E. Killebrew

Download or read book Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity written by Ann E. Killebrew and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Israel did not emerge within a vacuum but rather came to exist alongside various peoples, including Canaanites, Egyptians, and Philistines. Indeed, Israel’s very proximity to these groups has made it difficult—until now—to distinguish the archaeological traces of early Israel and other contemporary groups. Through an analysis of the results from recent excavations in light of relevant historical and later biblical texts, this book proposes that it is possible to identify these peoples and trace culturally or ethnically defined boundaries in the archaeological record. Features of late second-millennium B.C.E. culture are critically examined in their historical and biblical contexts in order to define the complex social boundaries of the early Iron Age and reconstruct the diverse material world of these four peoples. Of particular value to scholars, archaeologists, and historians, this volume will also be a standard reference and resource for students and other readers interested in the emergence of early Israel.

Elements of Ancient Jewish Nationalism

Author : David Goodblatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139460579
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Elements of Ancient Jewish Nationalism written by David Goodblatt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-04 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to the widespread view that nationalism is a modern phenomenon, Goodblatt argues that it can be found in the ancient world. He argues that concepts of nationalism compatible with contemporary social scientific theories can be documented in the ancient sources from the Mediterranean Rim by the middle of the last millennium BCE. In particular, the collective identity asserted by the Jews in antiquity fits contemporary definitions of nationalism. After the theoretical discussion in the opening chapter, the author examines several factors constitutive of ancient Jewish nationalism. He shows how this identity was socially constructed by such means as the mass dissemination of biblical literature, retention of the Hebrew language, and through the priestly caste. The author also discusses each of the names used to express Jewish national identity: Israel, Judah and Zion.

Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity

Author : Jonathan M. Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521789998
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity written by Jonathan M. Hall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Jonathan Hall seeks to demonstrate that the ethnic groups of ancient Greece, like many ethnic groups throughout the world today, were not ultimately racial, linguistic, religious or cultural groups, but social groups whose 'origins' in extraneous territories were just as often imagined as they were real. Adopting an explicitly anthropological point of view, he examines the evidence of literature, archaeology and linguistics to elucidate the nature of ethnic identity in ancient Greece. Rather than treating Greek ethnic groups as 'natural' or 'essential' - let alone 'racial' - entities, he emphasises the active, constructive and dynamic role of ethnography, genealogy, material culture and language in shaping ethnic consciousness. An introductory chapter outlines the history of the study of ethnicity in Greek antiquity.

A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

Author : Jeremy McInerney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444337343
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean by : Jeremy McInerney

Download or read book A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean written by Jeremy McInerney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays contributed by Classical Studies scholars that explore questions relating to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world. Covers topics of ethnicity in civilizations ranging from ancient Egypt and Israel, to Greece and Rome, and into Late Antiquity Features cutting-edge research on ethnicity relating to Philistine, Etruscan, and Phoenician identities Reveals the explicit relationships between ancient and modern ethnicities Introduces an interpretation of ethnicity as an active component of social identity Represents a fundamental questioning of formally accepted and fixed categories in the field

Family and Identity in the Book of Judges

Author : Bruno J. Clifton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783506791931
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Family and Identity in the Book of Judges written by Bruno J. Clifton and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ethnicity and Inclusion

Author : David G. Horrell
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467459704
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity and Inclusion written by David G. Horrell and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of today’s problematic ideologies of racial and religious difference can be traced back to constructions of the relationship between Judaism and early Christianity. New Testament studies, which developed contemporaneously with Europe’s colonial expansion and racial ideologies, is, David Horrell argues, therefore an important site at which to probe critically these ideological constructions and their contemporary implications. In Ethnicity and Inclusion, Horrell explores the ways in which “ethnic” (and “religious”) characteristics feature in key Jewish and early Christian texts, challenging the widely accepted dichotomy between a Judaism that is ethnically defined and a Christianity that is open and inclusive. Then, through an engagement with whiteness studies, he offers a critique of the implicit whiteness and Christianness that continue to dominate New Testament studies today, arguing that a diversity of embodied perspectives is epistemologically necessary.

Belonging in Genesis

Author : Amanda Beckenstein Mbuvi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781602587489
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Belonging in Genesis written by Amanda Beckenstein Mbuvi and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genesis calls its readers into a vision of human community unconstrained by the categories that dominate modern thinking about identity. Genesis situates humanity within a network of nurture that encompasses the entire cosmos--only then introducing Israel not as a people, but as a promise. Genesis prioritizes a human identity that originates in the divine word and depends on ongoing relationship with God. Those called into this new mode of belonging must forsake the social definition that had structured their former life, trading it for an alternative that will only gradually take shape. In contrast to the rigidity that typifies modern notions, Genesis depicts identity as fundamentally fluid. Encounter with God leads to a new social self, not a "spiritual" self that operates only within parameters established in the body at birth. In Belonging in Genesis, Amanda Mbuvi highlights the ways narrative and the act of storytelling function to define and create a community. Building on the emphasis on family in Genesis, she focuses on the way family storytelling is a means of holding together the interpretation of the text and the constitution of the reading community. Explicitly engaging the way in which readers regard the biblical text as a point of reference for their own (collective) identities leads to an understanding of Genesis as inviting its readers into a radically transformative vision of their place in the world.