The Hunt for Ancient Israel

This volume celebrates the contribution of Diana V. Edelman to the field and celebrates her personally as researcher, teacher, mentor, colleague, and mastermind of new research paths and groups. It salutes her unconventional, constantly thinking and rethinking outside the box and her challenging of established consensuses. It includes essays addressing biblical themes and texts, archaeological fieldwork, historical method, social memory and reception history. Contributors include Yairah Amit, James Anderson, Bob Becking, Ehud Ben Zvi, Kare Berge, Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley, Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher, Lester L. Grabbe, Philippe Guillaume, David Hamidovic, Lowell K. Handy, Maria Hausl, Kristin Joachimsen, Christoph Levin, Aren M. Maeir, Lynette Mitchell, Reinhard Muller, Jorunn Okland, Daniel Pioske, Thomas Romer, Benedetta Rossi, Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Jason Silverman, Steinar Skarpnes, Pauline A. Viviano, Anne-Mareike Wetter.

INTRODUCTION Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Kristin Joachimsen, Ehud Ben Zvi and Pauline Viviano 1. THE COVENANT OF CIRCUMCISION (GEN 17) AS AN IDENTITY MARKER OF NASCENT JUDAISM Thomas Romer, University of Lausanne 2. PAIN, GAIN, OR BOTH? CIRCUMCISION, TRAUMA, AND (R)EMASCULATION IN POST-EXILIC ISRAEL Anne-Mareike Schol-Wetter, Dutch Bible Society 3. REMEMBERING THE ROLES OF MOTHER, WIVES AND DAUGHTER IN THE FORMATION OF THE IDENTITY AND STORY OF ISRAEL IN GEN 25-36 Steinar Aandahl Skarpnes, MF- Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society 4. THE JOSEPH STORY: BETWEEN A FAMILY AND A POLEMICAL STORY Yairah Amit, Tel Aviv University 5. SHIBBOLETH: FOLKTALE AND REDACTION-HISTORY Christoph Levin, University of Munich 6. A MASTERPIECE OF EARLY HEBREW STORYTELLING: THE SEANCE AT EN-DOR (1 SAM 28) Reinhard Muller, University of Gottingen 7. THE IRREVOCABLE WORD OF GOD (1 KINGS 13:1-32) Pauline A. Viviano 8. THE PRAGMATIC CHALLENGE TO MOSES. JEREMIAH 30:1-4 IN LIGHT OF DEUTERONOMY Benedetta Rossi, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome 9. DATING HAGGAI: OR REFRAMING THE CONTEXT OF A PROPHETIC BOOK Bob Becking, Utrecht University 10. IT'S ALL IN THE LISTS! BUILDING THE COMMUNITY THROUGH THE LISTS IN THE BOOKS OF EZRA AND/ NEHEMIAH Maria Hausl, Technical University of Dresden and University of Pretoria 11. REFERENCES TO JOSIAH IN THE CHRONICLES' NARRATIVE Lowell K. Handy, Loyola University Chicago 12. KEYS TO THE PAST? ARCHAEOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL MEMORY FROM THE ANCIENT LEVANT Aren M. Maeir, Bar-Ilan University 13. PUTTING ONE'S HOUSE IN ORDER: HOUSEHOLD ARCHAEOLOGY AT TELL HALIF, ISRAEL Cynthia Shafer-Elliott 14. JERICHO BY QUMRAN AND QUMRAN BY JERICHO IN LATE ANTIQUITY: A MULTISPECTRAL CULTURAL LANDSCAPE THROUGH THE NEW CULTURAL STUDIES David Hamidovic, University of Lausanne 15. KINGS SAUL, DAVID, AND ARTHUR: ON WRITING A HISTORY OF THE "DARK AGE" Lester L. Grabbe, University of Hull 16. THE APPEARANCE OF HEBREW PROSE AND THE FABRIC OF HISTORY Daniel Pioske, Georgia Southern University 17. IF I EVER FORGET YOU, BENJAMIN... James S. Anderson, University of the Incarnate Word, Texas, and Philippe Guillaume, University of Berne 18. "HE SHALL ACCOMPLISH MY DESIRED WILL": THE YEHUDIZED CYRUS IN THE BOOK OF ISAIAH Kristin Joachimsen, MF- Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society 19. WHERE A SHATTERED VISAGE LIES? WARRANTS FOR AUTHORITY IN PERSIAN YEHUD Jason Silverman, University of Helsinki 20. THE PRODUCTION OF LITERATURE IN JUDEAN MILITARY COMMUNITIES IN EGYPT Anne Fitzpatrick, Trinity College Dublin 21. PRAYING HISTORY: TAKING A JOYFUL LEAP OF TRUST Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher, Catholic Private University, Linz 22. CULTURAL MEMORY, IDENTITY, AND THE PAST Kare Berge, NLA University College, Bergen 23. ALEXANDER AS A SITE OF MEMORY IN HELLENISTIC JUDAH IN THE CONTEXT OF MNEMONIC APPROPRIATIONS OF 'HIGH-VALUE' OUTSIDERS Ehud Ben Zvi 24. THE BRAVERY OF WOMEN: JANE DIEULAFOY AND QUEEN PARYSATIS. THE LONG SHADOWS OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE Jorunn Okland, University of Oslo List of Diana Edelman's Publications

Cynthia Shafer-Elliott is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible & Archaeology at Jessup University. Kristin Joachimsen is Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, MFNorwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society. Ehud Ben Zvi is a Professor Emeritus in the department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. Pauline A. Viviano is an Associate Professor Emerita of Theology at Loyola University Chicago where she taught for thirty-five years.

• Edited by Ehud Ben Zvi
• Edited by Kristin Joachimsen
• Edited by Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
• Edited by Pauline A. Viviano