The courtier and the governor : : transformations of genre in the Nehemiah memoir / / Sean Burt.
The Nehemiah Memoir, the narrative of the royal cupbearer sent to rebuild Jerusalem, is central to Ezra-Nehemiah's account of Persian Judah. Yet its emphasis on one individual's efforts makes it a text that ill-fits the book's story of a communal restoration. Sean Burt analyzes the na...
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| Superior document: | Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplements ; Volume 17 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Göttingen, Germany ;, Bristol, Connecticut : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | German English |
| Series: | Journal of ancient Judaism. Supplements ;
Volume 17. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (234 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: What is the Nehemiah Memoir?; 1. The Genre of the Nehemiah Memoir: From Impasse to Possibilities; 1.1 The Mid-Twentieth Century Form-Critical Consensus; 1.1.1 Ancient Near Eastern Royal Inscriptions; 1.1.2 Votive Inscriptions and Egyptian Biographies; 1.2 The Current Redaction-Critical Consensus: The "Mauerbau-Erzählung" Thesis; 1.3 Evaluation of the "Mauerbau-Erzählung" Thesis; 1.3.1 The Revised NM as a "Building Inscription": Nehemiah 6 as a Test Case
- 1.3.2 The "Mauerbau-Erzählung" Thesis and the Necessity for a New Understanding of Genre2. The Definition and Literary Boundaries of the Nehemiah Memoir (Neh 1:1-2:20; 3:33-7:3; 13:4-31); Excursus 1: A Note on the Term "Memoir"; 2.1 Core Texts (Neh 1:1a, 11b; 2:1--20; 3:33--6:19; 13:4--31); 2.2 Neh 1:1b-11a; 2.3 Neh 3:1-32; 2.4 Neh 7, 11, 12:27-43; 2.4.1 The Interdependence of Neh 7 and 11; 2.4.2 The Relationship of Neh 7:5-72a; 11 to Non-Nehemiah Memoir Material; 2.4.3 Neh 12:27-43 (and Neh 7:1-3 Revisited); 2.5 Neh 12:44-13:3; Excursus 2: Is the Book of Nehemiah a Unified Work?
- 2.6 Concluding ReflectionsPart II. Genre in the Nehemiah Memoir: A New Proposal; 3. Genre Theory: Toward a Dialectical Theory of Genre; 3.1 Genre and the Legacy of Form Criticism; 3.2 Genre's Historical Horizon; 3.3 Concluding Reflections: Using Genre Theory to Read the Nehemiah Memoir; 4. The Genres of the Nehemiah Memoir: Official Memorials and Court Tales; 4.1 Official Memorials: A Partial Return to the Form-Critical Consensus; 4.1.1 Late Period Egyptian "Career" Biographies; 4.1.2 West Semitic Memorial Inscriptions ("Autobiographies"); 4.1.3 The Achaemenid Bisitun Inscription of Darius I
- 4.1.4 The Gerizim Votive Inscriptions4.1.5 Concluding reflections: Is the "Official memorial" a Coherent Genre?; 4.2 Court Tales (the "Court Conflict" Story); 4.2.1 Characteristics of the Court Tale; 4.2.2 The Court Conflict Story in the Nehemiah Memoir; 5. How Genre Works in the Nehemiah Memoir; 5.1 The Transformation of Genres in the Nehemiah Memoir: From Court Tale to Official Memorial; 5.1.1 In the Court: Neh 1-2; 5.1.2 The Courtier and the Governor: Neh 4-6; 5.1.3 The Transformation Completed: Neh 13; 5.1.4 Reading the Whole from the End: The Duality of the Courtier and the Governor
- 5.2 The Ideologies of the Nehemiah Memoir's GenresPart III: The Nehemiah Memoir in Ezra-Nehemiah; 6. The Reception of the Nehemiah Memoir within Ezra-Nehemiah (Ezra 7-10; Neh 10; Neh 12:44-13:3); 6.1 The Nehemiah Memoir and the "Ezra Memoir" (Ezra 7--10); Excursus 3: On the Chronology of the Historical Ezra and Nehemiah; 6.2 Neh 10 and Neh 13; 6.3 Neh 12:44-13:3; 6.4 Concluding Reflections: Assimilating the Nehemiah Memoir; 7. Reading the Nehemiah Memoir in the Story of Israel's Restoration; 7.1 The Restored Community: The Diasporic Court Tale in the Homeland
- 7.2 The Holy City: The Governor in the Temple