Politics and Compromise in the Hebrew Bible
Edited by Mark G. Brett Edited by Jordan Davis Edited by Rachelle Gilmour Edited by Benedikt Hensel
Paperback (Forthcoming)
(January 2027)
ISBN: 9783162003539
6.1 x 9.13 inches
Price: $165.00
The contributors to this volume read compromise as a social, literary, and theological strategy in the Hebrew Bible. Biblical writers, they argue, used it as a conscious rhetorical tool to negotiate authority, community boundaries, and covenant ideals.
The contributors to this volume read compromise as a social, literary, and theological strategy in the Hebrew Bible. Compromise, they argue, is not accidental redactional residue but a conscious rhetorical tool through which biblical writers negotiated authority, community boundaries, and covenant ideals; close readings and theoretical reflections reveal how negotiations, concessions, and “rotten deals” are articulated, justified, or condemned, and how such literary representations reflect or contest identity constructions of “Israel” and of the “other.”
Mark G. Brett and Rachelle Gilmour: Introduction. What is Political Compromise?
I. Prequels and Prolegomena
David M. Carr: Uncompromising Lordship. The Genesis 1-11 Etiology of Trans-species Structures of Divine and Human Domination in Interreligious Perspective - Megan Warner: Beginning at the Beginning. Compromise in Genesis? - Megan B. Turton: Strategic Ambiguity and Covenant Compromise in MT Exodus 19-24 - Gili Kugler: Israel's Encounter with Brother Edom. Tracing Compromise in Political and Religious Narratives - Benedikt Hensel: Caleb the Edomite or Caleb the Judahite? Joshua 14:6-15 and 15:13-19 and the Narrative Negotiation of Idumea, Judah, and Biblical Israel in the Context of Emerging Judaism(s) in the Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods
II. Monarchies and Alliances
Mark G. Brett: Palace-Clan Relations and the Formation of Segmentary States in the Iron Age - Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer: David, the Ephrathite. Justification, Disinformation, or Compromise? - Rachelle Gilmour: Coups and Compromise. Judahite Royal Mothers in the Book of Kings - Natalie F. Mylonas: The Gendered Dynamics of Compromise in Prophetic Marriage Metaphors
III. Exiles and Imperial Jurisdictions
Jordan Davis: Jeremiah MT 37-44. The Subversive Retelling of a Golah-oriented Narrative - Philip P. Chia and Mark G. Brett: Theo-Political "Compromise"? Interpreting Zerubbabel in East and Southeast Asia - Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Jacob L. Wright: Reconceptualizing Peoplehood as a Response to Entrenched Imperial Rule. Ezra 9-10 and Nehemiah 9-10 - Samasoni Moleli Alama: Concessional Compromise in Chronicles. Reconfiguration of Kingship in the Postexilic Period - Brian Fui Kolia: Pushing Political Agendas from the Diaspora. A Talanoa of Qohelet with Samoan Politics - Ian Young: Politics and Compromise in the Animal Apocalypse
- Edited by Mark G. Brett
- Edited by Jordan Davis
- Edited by Rachelle Gilmour
- Edited by Benedikt Hensel
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Punning in Odd or Elegant Constructions in Jeremiah
The Convergence of Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Textuality in the Hebrew Text of Jeremiah
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The Significance of the Motifs of the Divine Warrior, Chaoskampf, and Theophany for Shaping the Book of the Twelve
Volume 159
L’exposition du nom divin dans le livre de l’Exode
tude exgtique d'Ex 3,1-4,18; 6,2-7,7; 33-34
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Disability, Faciality, and Redaction
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Das Amosbuch als epische Erzahlung im dramatischen Modus
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De-Demonising the Old Testament
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Das Abrahamopfer im Kontext von Gen 12-25
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