Imagining The Other And Constructing Israelite Identity In The Early Second Temple Period

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Imagining the Other and Constructing Israelite Identity in the Early Second Temple Period

Author : Ehud Ben Zvi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567655342
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Other and Constructing Israelite Identity in the Early Second Temple Period written by Ehud Ben Zvi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

The Reception of Jewish Tradition in the Social Imagination of the Early Christians

Author : John M.G. Barclay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567696022
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Book Synopsis The Reception of Jewish Tradition in the Social Imagination of the Early Christians by : John M.G. Barclay

Download or read book The Reception of Jewish Tradition in the Social Imagination of the Early Christians written by John M.G. Barclay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume take as their theme the reception of Jewish traditions in early Christianity, and the ways in which the meaning of these traditions changed as they were put to work in new contexts and for new social ends. Special emphasis is placed on the internal variety and malleability of these traditions, which underwent continual processes of change within Judaism, and on reception as an active, strategic, and interested process. All the essays in this volume seek to bring out how acts of reception contribute to the social formation of early Christianity, in its social imagination (its speech and thought about itself) or in its social practices, or both. This volume challenges static notions of tradition and passive ideas of 'reception', stressing creativity and the significance of 'strong' readings of tradition. It thus complicates standard narratives of 'the parting of the ways' between 'Christianity' and 'Judaism', showing how even claims to continuity were bound to make the same different.

Prayers and the Construction of Israelite Identity

Author : Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 0884143678
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (841 download)

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Book Synopsis Prayers and the Construction of Israelite Identity by : Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher

Download or read book Prayers and the Construction of Israelite Identity written by Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Substantial insights into various identity discourses reflected in the biblical prayers This collection of essays from an international group of scholars focuses on how biblical prayers of the Persian and early Hellenistic periods shaped identity, evoked a sense of belonging to specific groups, and added emotional significance to this affiliation. Contributors draw examples from different biblical texts, including Genesis, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, Psalms, Jonah, and Daniel. Features Thorough study of prayers that play a key role for a biblical book’s (re)construction of the people’s history and identity An examination of ways biblical figures are remodeled by their prayers by introducing other, sometimes even contradictory, discourses on identity An exploration of different ways in which psalms from postexilic times shaped, reflected, and modified identity discourses

Biblical Narratives of Israelites and Their Neighbors

Author : Adriane Leveen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351785559
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Book Synopsis Biblical Narratives of Israelites and Their Neighbors by : Adriane Leveen

Download or read book Biblical Narratives of Israelites and Their Neighbors written by Adriane Leveen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1 The wilderness journey and its end -- 2 Inside out: Jethro and the Midianites -- 3 Crossing over and settling the land -- Part 2 Living in the land -- 4 Enemies in the borderlands -- 5 Warriors and kings -- 6 Solomon and his neighbors -- Part 3 Unsettled in the land -- 7 "My father was a fugitive Aramaean"--8 Strangers at the gate -- Bibliography -- Index

Men, Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra 9-10

Author : Elisabeth M. Cook
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000968391
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Men, Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra 9-10 by : Elisabeth M. Cook

Download or read book Men, Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra 9-10 written by Elisabeth M. Cook and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a reading of the intermarriage debate and expulsion of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10, this book engages with the production and performance of masculinities in this biblical text, shifting the focus away from the 'foreign women' to the men who are the primary actors in this work. This approach addresses the diversity of masculinities and the ways in which they are implicated in the production of power relations in the text. It explores the ‘feminized’ masculinity of the peoples-of-the-lands, the unstable masculinity of the golah, Ezra’s performance of penitential masculinity, and the rehabilitation of divine masculinity. The rejection of the marriages and the call for the expulsion of the women and children are addressed as sites on which masculinities and power relations are configured. In doing so, this book sheds light on how women and the traits and performances culturally ascribed to women, femininity and inferior masculinities, are appropriated to produce masculinities and negotiate power relations between men. It posits that the debate in Ezra 9-10 is not, ultimately, about the women themselves, but about bringing the masculinities, bodies and practices of dissenting men under the ‘management’ of those who wield the Torah in the narrative world of the text. Men, Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra-9-10 is of interest for scholars and students working on the Book of Ezra specifically, as well as the Hebrew Bible and its world more broadly. It is also a valuable study for those working on masculinities and gender in the biblical world and ancient Near East.

The Construction of Exodus Identity in Ancient Israel

Author : Linda M. Stargel
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532641001
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Book Synopsis The Construction of Exodus Identity in Ancient Israel by : Linda M. Stargel

Download or read book The Construction of Exodus Identity in Ancient Israel written by Linda M. Stargel and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collective identity creates a sense of "us-ness" in people. It may be fleeting and situational or long-lasting and deeply ingrained. Competition, shared belief, tragedy, or a myriad of other factors may contribute to the formation of such group identity. Even people detached from one another by space, anonymity, or time, may find themselves in a context in which individual self-concept is replaced by a collective one. How is collective identity, particularly the long-lasting kind, created and maintained? Many literary and biblical studies have demonstrated that shared stories often lie at the heart of it. This book examines the most repeated story of the Hebrew Bible--the exodus story--to see how it may have functioned to construct and reinforce an enduring collective identity in ancient Israel. A tool based on the principles of the social identity approach is created and used to expose identity construction at a rhetorical level. The author shows that exodus stories are characterized by recognizable language and narrative structures that invite ongoing collective identification.

Loanwords in Biblical Literature

Author : Jonathan Thambyrajah
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056770307X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (677 download)

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Book Synopsis Loanwords in Biblical Literature by : Jonathan Thambyrajah

Download or read book Loanwords in Biblical Literature written by Jonathan Thambyrajah and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to previous scholarship which has approached loanwords from etymological and lexicographic perspectives, Jonathan Thambyrajah considers them not only as data but as rhetorical elements of the literary texts of which they are a part. In the book, he explains why certain biblical texts strongly prefer to use loanwords whereas others have few. In order to explore this, he studies the loanwords of Esther, Daniel, Ezra and Exodus, considering their impact on audiences and readers. He also analyzes and evaluates the many proposed loan hypotheses in Biblical Hebrew and proposes further or different hypotheses. Loanwords have the potential to carry associations with its culture of origin, and as such are ideal rhetorical tools for shaping a text's audience's view of the nations around them and their own nation. Thambyrajah also focuses on this phenomenon, looking at the court tales in Esther and Daniel, the correspondence in the Hebrew and Aramaic sections of Ezra 1–7, and the accounts of building the tabernacle in Exodus, and paying close attention to how these texts present ethnicity.

Rebuilding a Post-exilic Community

Author : Chingboi Guite Phaipi
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 153266480X
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Book Synopsis Rebuilding a Post-exilic Community by : Chingboi Guite Phaipi

Download or read book Rebuilding a Post-exilic Community written by Chingboi Guite Phaipi and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book of Ezra is generally known for its negative and exclusivist attitude towards the other. Others are the cause of dread in one part of the book, and in another part they are adversarial. Furthermore, Ezra commands that foreign wives and their children be sent away. Yet the book of Ezra also features an exceptional account of welcome. In Rebuilding a Post-exilic Community, Chingboi Guite Phaipi examines what drives negative attitudes toward the other, and argues that beneath the presence of different attitudes toward the other within the book of Ezra lies a coherent foundation. That is, negative attitudes toward others make sense in light of the community’s strong self-perception in the book of Ezra.

Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud

Author : Ehud Ben Zvi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110547147
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud by : Ehud Ben Zvi

Download or read book Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud written by Ehud Ben Zvi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Social Memory in Ex 16 and the Identity of Exilic/Post-Exilic Israel

Author : Ogochukwu Daniel Onuorah
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161624068
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Social Memory in Ex 16 and the Identity of Exilic/Post-Exilic Israel written by Ogochukwu Daniel Onuorah and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encountering the Other

Author : Laura Duhan-Kaplan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532633289
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Book Synopsis Encountering the Other by : Laura Duhan-Kaplan

Download or read book Encountering the Other written by Laura Duhan-Kaplan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do religious traditions create strangers and neighbors? How do they construct otherness? Or, instead, work to overcome it? In this exciting collection of interdisciplinary essays, scholars and activists from various traditions explore these questions. Through legal and media studies, they reveal how we see religious others. They show that Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Sikh texts frame others in open-ended ways. Conflict resolution experts and Hindu teachers, they explain, draw on a shared positive psychology. Jewish mystics and Christian contemplatives use powerful tools of compassionate perception. Finally, the authors explain how Christian theology can help teach respectful views of difference. They are not afraid to discuss how religious groups have alienated one another. But, together, they choose to draw positive lessons about future cooperation.

The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible

Author : Brad E. Kelle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190261161
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible by : Brad E. Kelle

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible written by Brad E. Kelle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible offers 36 essays on the so-called "Historical Books": Joshua, Judges, 1-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, Ezra-Nehemiah, and 1-2 Chronicles. The essays are organized around four nodes: contexts, content, approaches, and reception. Each essay takes up two questions: (1) what does the topic/area/issue have to do with the Historical Books?" and (2) how does this topic/area/issue help readers better interpret the Historical Books?" The essays engage traditional theories and newer updates to the same, and also engage the textual traditions themselves which are what give rise to compositional analyses. Many essays model approaches that move in entirely different ways altogether, however, whether those are by attending to synchronic, literary, theoretical, or reception aspects of the texts at hand. The contributions range from text-critical issues to ancient historiography, state formation and development, ancient Near Eastern contexts, society and economy, political theory, violence studies, orality, feminism, postcolonialism, and trauma theory-among others. Taken together, these essays well represent the variety of options available when it comes to gathering, assessing, and interpreting these particular biblical books"--

The Purity and Sanctuary of the Body in Second Temple Judaism

Author : Hannah K. Harrington
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647571288
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Purity and Sanctuary of the Body in Second Temple Judaism written by Hannah K. Harrington and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study traces the emergence of the concept of the body as a sanctuary from its biblical roots to its expressions in late Second Temple Judaism. Harrington's hypothesis is that the destruction of the first Jerusalem temple was a catalyst for a new reality vis-à-vis the temple and the emergence of increased emphasis on the holiness of the people along with concomitant standards of purity in a certain stream of Judaism. The study brings into relief elements of this attitude from exilic texts, e.g. Ezekiel, to Ezra-Nehemiah, the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Second Temple Jewish texts, including early Jesus and Pauline traditions. The goal is to provide a history of the concept of the body-cum-temple metaphor which comes to its fullest expression in the letters of Paul to the Corinthians. The concept of the body as a sanctuary as it comes to fruition in late second temple Judaism must be understood within the conceptual world of Jewish holiness of the time. The metaphor of the temple provides a frame of reference but only a close analysis of the concepts of holiness, purity, and impurity and the dynamics between them can provide depth and distinction. Of particular importance, critical to proper understanding of the temple metaphor, are the notions of the elect, holy status of Israel and its possible desecration by wrongful sexual relations, the loss of the temple and the ripple effect of creating at least temporary substitutes for processes of the cult, the widespread concern in Second Temple Judaism for ritual purity in support of greater holiness, and a desire among Jews for the residence and agency of the spirit of holiness.

Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period

Author : Mika S. Pajunen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110449269
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period by : Mika S. Pajunen

Download or read book Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period written by Mika S. Pajunen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When thinking about psalms and prayers in the Second Temple period, the Masoretic Psalter and its reception is often given priority because of modern academic or theological interests. This emphasis tends to skew our understanding of the corpus we call psalms and prayers and often dampens or mutes the lived context within which these texts were composed and used. This volume is comprised of a collection of articles that explore the diverse settings in which psalms and prayers were used and circulated in the late Second Temple period. The book includes essays by experts in the Hebrew bible, the Dead Sea scrolls, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and the New Testament, in which a wide variety of topics, approaches, and methods both old and new are utilized to explore the many functions of psalms and prayers in the late Second Temple period. Included in this volume are essays examining how psalms were read as prophecy, as history, as liturgy, and as literature. A variety methodologies are employed, and include the use of cognitive sciences and poetics, linguistic theory, psychology, redaction criticism, and literary theory.

The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions

Author : Marianne Bjelland Kartzow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100041521X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions written by Marianne Bjelland Kartzow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines an undertheorized topic in the study of religion and sacred texts: the figure of the neighbor. By analyzing and comparing this figure in Jewish, Christian and Islamic texts and receptions, the chapters explore a conceptual shift from "Children of Abraham" to "Ambiguous Neighbors." Through a variety of case studies using diverse methods and material, chapters explore the neighbor in these neighboring texts and traditions. The figure of the neighbor seems like an innocent topic at the surface. It is an everyday phenomenon, that everyone have knowledge about and experiences with. Still, analytically, it has a rich and innovative potential. Recent interdisciplinary research employs this figure to address issues of cultural diversity, gender, migration, ethnic relationships, war and peace, environmental challenges and urbanization. The neighbor represents the borderline between insider and outsider, friend and enemy, us and them. This ambiguous status makes the neighbor particularly interesting as an entry point into issues of cultural complexity, self-definition and identity. This volume brings all the intersections of religion, ethnicity, gender, and socio-cultural diversity into the same neighborhood, paying attention to sacred texts, receptions and contemporary communities. The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions offers a fascinating study of the intersections between Jewish, Christian and Islamic text, and will be of interest to anyone working on these traditions.

Worlds that Could Not Be

Author : Frauke Uhlenbruch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056766404X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Worlds that Could Not Be written by Frauke Uhlenbruch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of Utopia was first made current and popular by Sir Thomas More with the publication of his book by the same name in 1516. The 'no-place' that was created has had a fantastic reception history, which makes its application to the biblical books of Nehemiah, Ezra and Chronicles as vibrant as the current scholarship which is ongoing into the Renaissance term and its implications. The essays in this collection take different approaches to the question: are there proto-utopian elements in the three books from the Hebrew Bible? Methodological considerations are to be found, but each essay also moves beyond the methodological constraint to raise the hypothetical question of 'what if?' in different ways. The essays evaluate the potential, and pitfalls, of reading Biblical books as (proto-)utopian. Topics include how utopia construct intricate counter-realities, and how to tell whether a proposal diagnosed as 'utopian' from a modern point of view is meant to motivate its audience to political action. Case studies which read aspects of Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah as potential utopian traits include the restoration project of Ezra-Nehemiah and the rejection of foreign wives, utopian concerns in Chronicles, as well as the empire's role in writing a putative utopia, and King Solomon as a utopian fantasy-king.

"The Poor, the Crippled, the Blind, and the Lame"

Author : Louise A. Gosbell
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 316155132X
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book "The Poor, the Crippled, the Blind, and the Lame" written by Louise A. Gosbell and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Testament gospels feature numerous social exchanges between Jesus and people with various physical and sensory disabilities. Despite this, traditional biblical scholarship has not seen these people as agents in their own right but existing only to highlight the actions of Jesus as a miracle worker. In this study, Louise A. Gosbell uses disability as a lens through which to explore a number of these passages anew. Using the cultural model of disability as the theoretical basis, she explores the way that the gospel writers, as with other writers of the ancient world, used the language of disability as a means of understanding, organising, and interpreting the experiences of humanity. Her investigation highlights the ways in which the gospel writers reinforce and reflect, as well as subvert, culturally-driven constructions of disability in the ancient world.