History Memory Hebrew Scriptures

Author : Ian Douglas Wilson,Diana Vikander Edelman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1575063913

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History, Memory, Hebrew Scriptures by Ian Douglas Wilson,Diana Vikander Edelman Pdf

Ehud Ben Zvi is one of the foremost scholars in the field of Hebrew Bible today. He has had a global impact both as a researcher and as a teacher, and he continues to create cutting-edge research that is helping to shape the future of the field. This volume marks his upcoming retirement from the University of Alberta and honors him and his career as a scholar and educator. Thirty-one papers written by a select group of colleagues, including several former students and a former teacher, are presented under three sub-headings: History and Historiography; Prophecy and Prophetic Books; and Methods, Observations, (Re)Readings. These categories represent the wide-ranging interests of Ehud himself and include contributions on the Bible as social memory, for which he has been a leading advocate and theorist in the past decade. Contributors include R. Albertz, Y. Amit, B. Becking, K. Berge, M. J. Boda, A. Brenner-Idan, P. R. Davies, D. V. Edelman, M. H. Floyd, S. Gilmayr-Bucher, L. L. Grabbe, P. Guillaume, L. Jonker, G. N. Knoppers, S. Kostamo, F. Landy, T. Langille, C. Levin, J. R. Linville, W. Morrow, C. Nihan, S. B. Noegel, J. Nogalski, R. Müller, N. Na?aman, R. Nelson, F. Polak, K. Ristau, P. J. Sabo, C. Walsh, and I. D. Wilson. Readers, regardless of their areas of specialization, will find many stimulating and thought-provoking contributions in the collection, which is fitting, given the boundary-pushing work of the honoree.

Author : Ian Douglas Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9004388788

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History and the Hebrew Bible by Ian Douglas Wilson Pdf

This essay offers an introduction to select disciplinary developments in the study of history and in historical study of the Hebrew Bible, focusing first and foremost on cultural history. It highlights key works on culture, narrative, and memory, in order to establish a contemporary historical approach to biblical studies.

Author : Philip R. Davies
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664227287

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Scribes and Schools by Philip R. Davies Pdf

Scribes and Schools is an examination of the processes which led to the canonization of the Hebrew Bible. Philip Davies sheds light on the social reasons for the development of the canon and in so doing presents a clear picture of how the Bible came into being. Volumes in the Library of Ancient Israel draw on multiple disciplines--such as archaeology, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, and literary criticism--to illuminate the everyday realities and social subtleties these ancient cultures experienced. This series employs sophisticated methods resulting in original contributions that depict the reality of the people behind the Hebrew Bible and interprets these insights for a wide variety of readers.

Author : Ian Douglas Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190499907

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Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah by Ian Douglas Wilson Pdf

-The book has its formal origins in a doctoral dissertation defended at the University of Alberta in March 2015---Acknowledgments.

Author : Ronald Hendel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-03
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 019803959X

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Remembering Abraham by Ronald Hendel Pdf

According to an old tradition preserved in the Palestinian Targums, the Hebrew Bible is "the Book of Memories." The sacred past recalled in the Bible serves as a model and wellspring for the present. The remembered past, says Ronald Hendel, is the material with which biblical Israel constructed its identity as a people, a religion, and a culture. It is a mixture of history, collective memory, folklore, and literary brilliance, and is often colored by political and religious interests. In Israel's formative years, these memories circulated orally in the context of family and tribe. Over time they came to be crystallized in various written texts. The Hebrew Bible is a vast compendium of writings, spanning a thousand-year period from roughly the twelfth to the second century BCE, and representing perhaps a small slice of the writings of that period. The texts are often overwritten by later texts, creating a complex pastiche of text, reinterpretation, and commentary. The religion and culture of ancient Israel are expressed by these texts, and in no small part also created by them, as they formulate new or altered conceptions of the sacred past. Remembering Abraham explores the interplay of culture, history, and memory in the Hebrew Bible. Hendel examines the Hebrew Bible's portrayal of Israel and its history, and correlates the biblical past with our own sense of the past. He addresses the ways that culture, memory, and history interweave in the self-fashioning of Israel's identity, and in the biblical portrayals of the patriarchs, the Exodus, and King Solomon. A concluding chapter explores the broad horizons of the biblical sense of the past. This accessibly written book represents the mature thought of one of our leading scholars of the Hebrew Bible.

Author : Travis B. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108493338

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History and Memory in the Dead Sea Scrolls by Travis B. Williams Pdf

Charts a new methodological course in Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship by employing memory theory to inform historical research. This is an instructive resource for scholars who are seeking an alternative to currently constructed approaches to the subject, and will be of appeal to those interested in the Dead Sea Scrolls more generally.

Author : Brad E. Kelle,Brent A. Strawn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190074111

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The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible by Brad E. Kelle,Brent A. Strawn Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible is a collection of essays that provide resources for the interpretation of the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. The volume is not exhaustive in its coverage, but examines interpretive aspects of these books that are deemed essential for interpretation or that are representative of significant trends in present and future scholarship. The individual essays are united by their focus on two guiding questions: (1) What does this topic have to do with the Old Testament Historical Books? and (2) How does this topic help readers better interpret the Old Testament Historical Books? Each essay critically surveys prior scholarship before presenting current and prospective approaches. Taking into account the ongoing debates concerning the relationship between the Old Testament texts and historical events in the ancient world, data from Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian culture and history are used to provide a larger context for the content of the Historical Books. Essays consider specific issues related to Israelite/Judean history (settlement, state formation, monarchy, forced migration, and return) as they relate to the interpretation of the Historical Books. This volume also explores the specific themes, concepts, and content that are most essential for interpreting these books. In light of the diverse material included in this section of the Old Testament, the Handbook further examines interpretive strategies that employ various redactional, synthetic, and theory-based approaches. Beyond the Old Testament proper, subsequent texts, traditions, and cultures often received and interpreted the material in the Historical Books, and so the volume concludes by investigating the literary, social, and theological aspects of that reception.

Author : Corrine Carvalho
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190634537

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The Oxford Handbook of Ezekiel by Corrine Carvalho Pdf

The current state of scholarship on the book of Ezekiel, one of the three Major Prophets, is robust. Ezekiel, unlike most pre-exilic prophetic collections, contains overt clues that its primary circulation was as a literary text and not a collection of oral speeches. The author was highly educated, the theology of the book is "dim," and its view of humanity is overwhelmingly negative. In The Oxford Handbook of Ezekiel, editor Corrine Carvalho brings together scholars from a diverse range of interpretive perspectives to explore one of the Bible's most debated books. Consisting of twenty-seven essays, the Handbook provides introductions to the major trends in the scholarship of Ezekiel, covering its history, current state, and emerging directions. After an introductory overview of these trends, each essay discusses an important element in the scholarly engagement with the book. Several essays discuss the history of the text (its historical context, redactional layers, text criticism, and use of other Israelite and near eastern traditions). Others focus on key themes in the book (such as temple, priesthood, law, and politics), while still others look at the book's reception history and contextual interpretations (including art, Christian use, gender approaches, postcolonial approaches, and trauma theory). Taken together, these essays demonstrate the vibrancy of Ezekiel research in the twenty-first century.

Author : Ogochukwu Daniel Onuorah
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783161624063

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Social Memory in Ex 16 and the Identity of Exilic/Post-Exilic Israel by Ogochukwu Daniel Onuorah Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004537804

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The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture by Anonim Pdf

This book is a collection of cutting-edge essays on the Dead Sea Scrolls as part of ancient Mediterranean media culture, featuring interdisciplinary feedback from scholars in New Testament studies and Classics.

Author : Jaqueline S. Du Toit
Publisher : Social World of Biblical Antiq
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1907534156

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Textual Memory by Jaqueline S. Du Toit Pdf

In modern scholarship the Hebrew Bible represents a collection of books, perhaps even a library of books. Some think that it is a selection of ancient oral traditions that were eventually written down, edited and preserved. Others suggest that the biblical corpus resulted from a merging of regional libraries in ancient Palestine or was the outcome of the Hasmoneans' need to legitimize their rule by claiming ownership of a library of books originating in the Jerusalem temple. No matter how tantalizing these hypotheses are, the implications of a concrete understanding of the origins of the Bible as library or archive are not often fully appreciated by scholars. Textual Memory explores how various disciplines, including Assyriology, biblical studies, archival science and library history, have made sense of the thousands of collections of clay tablets and ancient written material discovered over the past two hundred years in the Middle East. And it raises the question whether the great libraries of Ashurbanipal and Alexandria, among others, are able to suggest models of how the Hebrew Bible came into being. Can the temple libraries in Mesopotamia or Egypt offer us any clues about who decided what should be preserved and why? What have ancient archival practices of careful selection, conservation, classification and dissemination of information to contribute to our understanding of the creation of the Hebrew Bible? Ultimately, this book is a historiographical synthesis of current scholarship on ancient Near Eastern archives and libraries from different disciplinary perspectives. Its purpose is to understand better how we should conceive of the Bible as religious tradition and literary heritage.

Author : Lorenzo Burge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0282442847

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Origin and Formation of the Hebrew Scriptures by Lorenzo Burge Pdf

Excerpt from Origin and Formation of the Hebrew Scriptures: Reciting When, Where, Under What Circumstances, for What Purpose and by Whom They Were Written, as Obtained From the Writings of That Eminent Persian Nobleman and Historian Nehemiah Who Was Appointed Governor of Palestine B. C. 445The Hebrew Scriptures are composed of all the books of the Old Testament except the Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon. This collection was known to the Jews as the Law and the Prophets, and is the foundation of our Bible.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Mark A. Leuchter,David T. Lamb
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506407852

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The Historical Writings by Mark A. Leuchter,David T. Lamb Pdf

History has an inescapable centrality in the Hebrew Bible, and biblical narratives are for many readers the best recognized and most memorable parts of the Bible. Yet the history of ancient Israel and the nature of Hebrew historiography remain hotly contested topics in contemporary scholarship. The Historical Writings introduces students to the character of the Deuteronomistic History (Joshua through Kings) and other historical writings (Ezra, Nehemiah, and 1 and 2 Chronicles); to the different roles history-writing plays throughout the Hebrew Bible; to the key historical questions and methods shaping contemporary scholarly debate in light of archaeological research; and to the literary and theological contours of the biblical narratives themselves. An introduction presents issues in the historical and literary interpretation of these writings. Subsequent chapters on the books Joshua through Kings, Ezra-Nehemiah, and Chronicles each discuss literary concerns, historical issues, and theological themes relevant to each book, then offer succinct and informative commentary on the book. Pedagogical features include maps, photographs, primary sources from the ancient Near East, reading lists, and a glossary.

Author : Mark S. Smith,Elizabeth M. Bloch-Smith
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780800660628

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Judges Hermeneia by Mark S. Smith,Elizabeth M. Bloch-Smith Pdf

This groundbreaking volume presents a new translation of the text and detailed interpretation of almost every word or phrase in the book of Judges, drawing from archaeology and iconography, textual versions, biblical parallels, and extrabiblical texts, many never noted before. Archaeology also serves to show how a story of the Iron II period employed visible ruins to narrate supposedly early events from the so-called "period of the Judges." The synchronic analysis for each unit sketches its characters and main themes, as well as other literary dynamics. The diachronic, redactional analysis shows the shifting settings of units as well as their development, commonly due to their inner-textual reception and reinterpretation. The result is a remarkably fresh historical-critical treatment of 1:1-10:5.--Publisher's description.

Author : Marvin Lloyd Miller,Ehud Ben Zvi,Gary N. Knoppers
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575064147

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The Economy of Ancient Judah in Its Historical Context by Marvin Lloyd Miller,Ehud Ben Zvi,Gary N. Knoppers Pdf

The dynamics of ancient Judah’s economy are among the most important, but also neglected and least understood, aspects of ancient Israel’s history. The essays in this volume address this gap from a multidisciplinary perspective, involving archeology, biblical studies, economics, epigraphy, ancient history, Jewish studies, and theology. The essays focus on particular issues in the economy of ancient Judah and its neighbors during the late monarchy and the Neo-Babylonian, Persian, and Hellenistic periods. Some of them evaluate the theoretical models used to understand the inner workings of ancient agrarian economies, while others explore rural economies, the forces of regeneration and degeneration in particular regions, the settlement histories of different areas, and the exploitation of depopulated land in Judah and Idumea. Essays in the volume also address population growth, urbanization, the role of diverse temple towns (such as Babylon and Jerusalem) in regional market economies, the literary portrayal of patron–client relationships, symmetrical and asymmetrical relations in international trade, and the views of urban elites toward agrarian economic developments. Yet others discuss family economics—policies of reproduction, gender roles, family size, and household hierarchies—in Judah and ancient Persia. Many of the essays appearing in this volume were originally delivered as papers in special sessions devoted to these topics at annual meetings of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies and the European Association of Biblical Studies. The scholars participating in this international project conduct their research at institutions in Canada, Germany, Israel, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States.