Ethnicity And Identity In Ancient Israel

Author : Kenton L. Sparks
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575060330

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Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Israel by Kenton L. Sparks Pdf

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.

Author : Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1793020590

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

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.

Author : Jürgen Zangenberg,Harold W. Attridge,Dale B. Martin
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 3161490444

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Religion, Ethnicity, and Identity in Ancient Galilee by Jürgen Zangenberg,Harold W. Attridge,Dale B. Martin Pdf

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.

Author : Gary N. Knoppers,Kenneth A. Ristau
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575066110

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Community Identity in Judean Historiography by Gary N. Knoppers,Kenneth A. Ristau Pdf

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.

Author : Avraham Faust
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134942084

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Israel's Ethnogenesis by Avraham Faust Pdf

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.

Author : Dermot Anthony Nestor
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567012975

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Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity by Dermot Anthony Nestor Pdf

It presents a vision of Israel as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity; a perspective on the world rather than an entity in it. >

Author : Mark Brett
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004493544

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Ethnicity and the Bible by Mark Brett Pdf

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.

Author : Eliezer Ben Rafael,Stephen Sharot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : OCLC:848586549

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Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in Israeli Society by Eliezer Ben Rafael,Stephen Sharot Pdf

Author : Bruno J. Clifton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3506791931

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Family and Identity in the Book of Judges by Bruno J. Clifton Pdf

Author : E. Theodore Mullen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029965111

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Narrative History and Ethnic Boundaries by E. Theodore Mullen Pdf

Author : Linda M. Stargel
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532640988

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The Construction of Exodus Identity in Ancient Israel by Linda M. Stargel Pdf

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.

Author : Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Stephen Sharot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521392297

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Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society by Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Stephen Sharot Pdf

This book is the first major sociological analysis of the characteristics and interrelationships of ethnicity, religion, and socio-economic class in Israeli society. Although much has been written about the various distinctions between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, this volume argues for a more sophisticated approach than the rather crude divisions that have formed the basis of most works on the subject. The authors include categories largely overlooked in sociological studies on Israel such as middle class Israelis from Asia and Africa, and working-class Israelis from Europe. The data acquired from this rich ethnic mix leads to the analysis of a wide range of theoretical issues that casts fresh light on social cleavages within Israel in particular and society in general.

Author : David G. Horrell
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467459709

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Ethnicity and Inclusion by David G. Horrell Pdf

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.

Author : Lester L. Grabbe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567663245

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The Dawn of Israel by Lester L. Grabbe Pdf

In this companion volume to his bestselling Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? Lester L. Grabbe provides the background history of the main ancient Near Eastern peoples and empires: Babylonia, Assyria, Urartu, Hittites, Amorites, Egyptians. Grabbe's focus is on Palestine/Canaan and covers the early second millennium, including the Middle Bronze Age and the Second Intermediate Period and Hyksos rule of Egypt. Grabbe also addresses the question of a 'patriarchal period'. The main focus of the book is on the second half of the second millennium: Late Bronze and early Iron Age, the Egyptian New Kingdom, the Amarna letters, the Sea Peoples, the question of 'the exodus', the early settlements in the hill country of Palestine, and the first mention of Israel in the Merenptah inscription. Archaeology and the contribution of the social sciences both feature heavily, as does inscriptional and iconographic material. As such this volume provides a fascinating portrayal of ancient Israel and this definitive work by one of the world's leading biblical historians will be of interest to all students and scholars of biblical history.

Author : Ian Boxall,Bradley C. Gregory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108490924

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The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation by Ian Boxall,Bradley C. Gregory Pdf

This volume provides an up-to-date introduction to the diverse ways the Bible is being interpreted by scholars in the field.