Community Identity in Judean Historiography : : Biblical and Comparative Perspectives /

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

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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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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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

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