Community Identity in Judean Historiography : : Biblical and Comparative Perspectives / / ed. by Gary N. Knoppers, Kenneth A. Ristau.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Ben Zvi, Ehud,; Boda, Mark J.,; Bowick, James,; Jonker, Louis,; Kessler, John,; Knoppers, Gary N.,; Leuchter, Mark,; Ristau, Kenneth A.,; Sparks, Kenton L.,; Stott, Katherine M.,; Van Seters, John,
• HerausgeberIn: Knoppers, Gary N.,; Ristau, Kenneth A.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors to Community Identity in Judean Historiography -- Introduction -- Israel and the Nomads of Ancient Palestine -- David: Messianic King or Mercenary Ruler? -- A Comparative Study of the Exilic Gap in Ancient Israelite, Messenian, and Zionist Collective Memory -- Are There Any Bridges Out There? How Wide Was the Conceptual Gap between the Deuteronomistic History and Chronicles? -- Characters in Stone: Royal Ideology and Yehudite Identity in the Behistun Inscription and the Book of Haggai -- The Diaspora in Zechariah 1-8 and Ezra-Nehemiah: The Role of History, Social Location, and Tradition in the Formulation of Identity -- Ethnicity, Genealogy, Geography, and Change: The Judean Communities of Babylon and Jerusalem in the Story of Ezra -- Ezra's Mission and the Levites of Casiphia -- Textual Identities in the Books of Chronicles: The Case of Jehoram's History -- Reading and Rereading Josiah: The Chronicler's Representation of Josiah for the Postexilic Community -- Identity and Empire, Reality and Hope in the Chronicler's Perspective -- Index of Authors