Jewish cultural encounters in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world / / edited by Mladen Popovic, Myles Schoonover, Marijn Vandenberghe.

• Superior document: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, volume 178
• Author: Qumran Institute Symposium
• TeilnehmendeR: Popović, Mladen,; Schoonover, Myles,; Vandenberghe, Marijn,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 178.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (323 pages) :; illustrations.

"The essays in this volume originate from the Third Qumran Institute Symposium held at the University of Groningen, December 2013. Taking the flexible concept of "cultural encounter" as a starting point, the essays in this volume bring together a panoply of approaches to the study of various cultural interactions between the people of ancient Israel, Judea, and Palestine and people from other parts of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world. In order to study how cultural encounters shaped historical development, literary traditions, religious practice and political systems, the contributors employ a broad spectrum of theoretical positions (e.g., hybridity, métissage, frontier studies, postcolonialism, entangled histories and multilingualism), to interpret a diverse set of literary, documentary, archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic, and iconographic sources"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Ancient Jewish Cultural Encounters and a Case Study on Ezekiel / Mladen Popović -- Taming Egypt: The Impact of Persian Imperial Ideology and Politics on the Biblical Exodus Account / Konrad Schmid -- Exchange, Replacement, or Acceptance? Two Examples of Lending Deities among Ethnic Groups in Elephantine / Bob Becking -- Netting Marduk? The Concept of Hidden Transcripts and the Transfer of Cultural Knowledge from Mesopotamian to Judean Texts / Jonathan Stökl -- The Prayer of Nabonidus in the Light of Hellenistic Babylonian Literature / Caroline Waerzeggers -- Levels of Meaning and Textual Polysemy in Akkadian and Hebrew Exegetical Texts / Uri Gabbay -- “Judaism” and “Hellenism”: Martin Hengel’s Work in Perspective / Jörg Frey -- Choosing Between Papyrus and Skin: Cultural Complexity and Multiple Identities in the Qumran Library / George J. Brooke -- What Does India Have to Do with Jerusalem? Ben Sira, Language, and Colonialism / Benjamin G. Wright -- Hybridity, Hydrology, and Hidden Transcript: Sirach 24 and the Judean Encounter with Ptolemaic Isis Worship / Judith H. Newman -- Reflections on the Cultural Encounter between the Jews and the Greeks and Romans in Jewish Coin Iconography of the Hellenistic-Roman Period / Anne Lykke -- Philo’s Greek Scriptures and Cultural Symbiosis / Hindy Najman -- “I Wish Those Who Unsettle You Would Mutilate Themselves!” (Gal 5:12): Circumcision and Emasculation in the Letter to the Galatians / J. Cornelis de Vos -- Rabbis and Romanization: A Review Essay / Ishay Rosen-Zvi -- Subversion and Subculture: Jewish Time-Keeping in the Roman Empire / Sacha Stern -- Elijah’s Cave in Haifa: Whose Holy Site is this Anyway? / Tal Ilan -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Ancient Sources.