The Concept of Exile in Ancient Israel and its Historical Contexts /

The Concept of Exile in Ancient Israel and its Historical Contexts / / ed. by Christoph Levin, Ehud Ben Zvi.

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In ancient Israelite literature Exile is seen as a central turning point within the course of the history of Israel. In these texts “the Exile” is a central ideological concept. It serves to explain the destruction of the monarchic polities and the social and economic disasters associated with them...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
HerausgeberIn:
Ben Zvi, Ehud,
Levin, Christoph,
MitwirkendeR:
Gertz, Jan Christian,
Kessler, John,
Landy, Francis,
Levin, Christoph,
Linville, James R.,
Müller, Reinhard,
Nissinen, Martti,
Pakkala, Juha,
Stipp, Hermann-Josef,
Valkama, Kirsi,
Wöhrle, Jakob,
Zvi, Ehud Ben,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft , 404
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Physical Description:1 online resource (388 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Military Threat and the Concept of Exile in the Book of Amos
  • The Exiled Gods of Babylon in Neo Assyrian Prophecy
  • What Do Archaeological Remains Reveal of the Settlements in Judah during the Mid Sixth Century BCE?
  • The Empty Land in Kings
  • The Exile and the Exiles in the Ezra Tradition
  • The Concept of the Empty Land in Jeremiah 37-43
  • Total Exile, Empty Land and the General Intellectual Discourse in Yehud
  • The Voice and Role of a Counterfactual Memory in the Construction of Exile and Return: Considering Jeremiah 40: 7–12
  • The Un-Empty Land: The Concept of Exile and Land in P
  • A Prophetic View of the Exile in the Holiness Code: Literary Growth and Tradition History in Leviticus 26
  • Images of Exile in the Book of Judges
  • Exile in the Book of Isaiah
  • Reading, Writing, and Exile
  • Playing with Maps of Exile: Displacement, Utopia, and Disjunction
  • Myth of the Exilic Return: Myth Theory and the Exile as an Eternal Reality in the Prophets
  • Images of Exile: Representations of the “Exile” and “Empty Land” in Sixth to Fourth Century BCE Yehudite Literature
  • Backmatter

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