Jephtas Tochter
Traditions-, religions- und rezeptionsgeschichtliche Studien zu Richter 11,29-40
by Michaela Bauks
English summary: Based on the story of the vow taken in Judges 11:29-40, Michaela Bauks studies the phenomenon of child sacrifice in the Ancient Near East and in the Old Testament. After a detailed analysis of the text composition of Judges 11 and an examination of the redaction history, the author deals with the evidence of child sacrifices in the history of religion in the Mediterranean area during the first century BC and then studies the reception history using several pertinent documents (Septuagint, Targum, Josephus, Pseudo-Philo, the New Testament as well as other documents on Judges 11, mainly in the early church) as well as the significant intertext in Genesis 22. In addition to historical issues, the author also explores the intention and the function of the talk of child sacrifices in detail. The various literary, theological and material facets of the subject are given equal treatment and evaluated in favor of the Judges narrative. German description: Ausgehend von der Opfergelubde-Erzahlung in Ri 11,29-40 untersucht Michaela Bauks das Phanomen des Kinderopfers im Alten Orient und im Alten Testament. Nach eingehender Analyse der Textkomposition von Ri 11 und Erwagungen zur Redaktionsgeschichte wendet sie sich den religionsgeschichtlichen Belegen fur Kinderopfer im mediterranen Kulturkreis des 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. zu und untersucht im Anschluss daran die Rezeptionsgeschichte anhand einiger einschlagiger Belege (bes. LXX, Targum, Josephus, Pseudo-Philo, NT sowie Rekurse auf Ri 11 vorwiegend in der Alten Kirche) bei zusatzlicher Berucksichtigung des wichtigen Intertexts in Gen 22. Neben den historischen Fragestellungen widmet sich die Autorin zudem ausfuhrlich der Frage nach der Intention und Funktion der Rede vom Kinderopfer. Die verschiedenen Facetten des Themas in literarischer, theologischer und materieller Hinsicht werden gleichberechtigt nebeneinander gestellt und zu Gunsten der Interpretation der Richtererzahlung ausgewertet.
Michaela Bauks, Geboren 1962 ; Studium der Ev. Theologie und Romanistik in Bochum, Liege, Hamburg; Nebenstudium der Agyptologie und Assyriologie in Hamburg und Heidelberg; 1995 Promotion im Fach Altes Testament; 1995-2003 Maitre de Conference, 2003-2005 Professorin fur Altes Testament an der theol. Fakultat der Universitat Montpellier; 2003 Habilitation; seit 2005 Professorin fur Bibelwissenschaft (Altes Testament) an der Universitat Koblenz.
- By (author) Michaela Bauks
Other Titles in this Series
Scribal Laws
Exegetical Variation in the Textual Transmission of Biblical Law in the Late Second Temple Period
Volume 92
Historical Settings, Intertextuality, and Biblical Theology
Essays in Honor of Marvin A. Sweeney
Volume 160
Identitatsstiftende Begegnung
Die theologische Deutung des regelmassigen Kultes Israels in der Tora
Volume 121
Texte und Kontexte des Sirachbuchs
Gesammelte Studien zu Ben Sira und zur fruhjudischen Weisheit
Volume 98
Prophetie und Konigtum
Eine narratologisch-historische Methodologie entwickelt an den Konigsbuchern
Volume 60
Book-Seams in the Hexateuch I
The Literary Transitions Between the Books of Genesis/Exodus and Joshua/Judges
Volume 120
History and the Hebrew Bible
Studies in Ancient Israelite and Ancient Near Eastern Historiography
Volume 61
Gott in Zion
Geschichte der Zionstheologien im alten Israel mit Schwerpunkten auf den Psalmen und dem Jesajabuch
Volume 181
Economics in Persian-Period Biblical Texts
Their Interactions with Economic Developments in the Persian Period and Earlier Biblical Traditions
Similar Books
Apocrypha, Magic, Liturgy
The Multiple Identities of Coptic Prayers in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt
Athanasius of Alexandria, Epistula ad episcopos Aegypti et Libyae
Old Slavonic Version and English Translation
Volume 261
Contesting Labeled Identities
The Sociology of Gentilics in Biblical and Northwest Semitic Literature
Cyril of Alexandria’s Christological Exegesis
Explorations of Partitive Exegesis in the Dialogues on the Trinity
Volume 70
Epiphanies of the Divine in the Septuagint and the New Testament
Fifth International Symposium of the Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti (CJHNT), 14-17 May 2015, Nottingham
Extracanonical Traditions and the Holy Land
Texts, Rituals, and Material Culture in Late Antique Palestine
From Joseph to Jesus
The Joseph Narrative as a Compositional Template from Old Greek Esther to the Gospel of Luke
Volume 125
Nicholas of Lyra’s Commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew and Luke
Franciscan Exegesis in a Time of Crisis
Paradise Lost in Transmission
The Return to Eden in the Apocalypse of Peter within Its Ethiopic and Early Christian Contexts
Punning in Odd or Elegant Constructions in Jeremiah
The Convergence of Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Textuality in the Hebrew Text of Jeremiah
