Wie der Einheimische so der Fremde
Zur Entstehung und Intention des Heiligkeitsgesetzes und der Texte der sogenannten Heiligkeitsschule
By (author) Alexandra Jacobsen
Paperback (Published)
(July 2026)
ISBN: 9783161648830
6.1 x 9.13 inches
Price: $134.00
In stock
How did the Persian period shape Old Testament language and thought? Alexandra Jacobsen shows how an editorial layer reworked the early Holiness Code (Lev 17-26) and called for integrating “foreigners.” She also offers a new view of Pentateuchal formation and post-exilic self-understanding.
How did the Persian period shape the language and thought of the Old Testament? Alexandra Jacobsen offers a fresh perspective on the origin, structure, and intention of the Holiness Legislation in Lev 17-26 and its reworking in the context of the post-exilic and Persian periods. She investigates how this legal corpus is composed literarily, which redactional developments it underwent, and how its innovative theological accents – especially with regard to the relationship between natives and foreigners – are to be situated historically. Her central thesis is the literary differentiation of two clearly discernible layers within the texts attributed to the so-called “Holiness School”: an older foundational layer and a later, extensive “redaction of the foreigner,” which articulates a new integrative ethic. By combining historical and literary arguments, the author contributes to the current discussion on the formation of the Pentateuch and presents a model that is able to explain the diversity of the so-called Holiness texts with greater precision than before.
Einleitung
1.1 Überblick über die Forschungsgeschichte des Heiligkeitsgesetzes
1.2 Ausgangspunkt und Ziel dieser Untersuchung
1.3 Aufbau der vorliegenden Untersuchung
Die Texte des Heiligkeitsgesetzes Lev 17-26
2.1 Die Opferordnung und das Blutgenussverbot in Lev 17
2.2 Die Vermischungsverbote in Lev 18
2.3 Die Sozialordnungen in Lev 19
2.4 Das Verbot der Fremdgötterverehrung in Lev 20
2.5 Die Priesterordnungen in Lev 21-22
2.6 Die Festordnungen in Lev 23
2.7 Die Talionsbestimmungen in Lev 24
2.8 Das Sabbat- und Jobeljahr in Lev 25
2.9 Verheißung und Drohung in Lev 26
2.10 Zusammenfassung
Die Fremdenredaktion des Heiligkeitsgesetzes und die sogenannte Heiligkeitsschule
3.1 Die Beschneidungsordnung in Gen 17
3.2 Der Landerwerb in Gen 23
3.3 Die Passahverordnung in Ex 12
3.4 Der Versöhnungstag in Lev 16
3.5 Die Passahordnung in Num 9
3.6 Gemischte Bestimmungen in Num 15
3.7 Zusammenfassung
Die Intention des Fremdenredaktors
4.1 Die Abgrenzung von den Fremden in der Grundschicht des Heiligkeitsgesetzes
4.2 Der Fremde im Kult
4.3 Der Fremde in Sozial- und Wirtschaftsvorschriften
4.4 Fazit: Der Fremde als Teil des Volkes
Fazit und Ausblick
- By (author) Alexandra Jacobsen
Other Titles in this Series
Inscribe It in a Book
Scribal Practice, Cultural Memory, and the Making of the Hebrew Scriptures
Volume 139
Fear, Fear of God, God-Fearers
Philological and Historical Perspectives on the World of Ancient Judaism and Christianity
Of Kings and Reigns
A Study of Translation Technique in the Gamma/Gamma Section of 3 Reigns (1 Kings)
Volume 30
Die Entgrenzung JHWHs
Monolatrie, Bilderverbot und Monotheismus im Deuteronomium, in Deuterojesaja und im Ezechielbuch
Volume 27
Monotheism and Institutions in the Book of Chronicles
Temple, Priesthood, and Kingship in Post-Exilic Perspective. Studies of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Research Group on Early Jewish Monotheism. Vol. I
Volume 64
Narrative Analogy in the David Story
Parallels between Genesis 25-50 and 1 Samuel 16-1 Kings 2
Volume 154
God, His Servant, and the Nations in Isaiah 42:1-9
Biblical Theological Reflections after Brevard S. Childs and Hans Hubner
Volume 73
God’s Enduring Love in the Book of Hosea
A Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis of Hosea 11:1-11
Volume 14
The Significance of Linguistic Diversity in the Hebrew Bible
Language and Boundaries of Self and Other
Volume 138
Silent or Salient Gender?
The Interpretation of Gendered God-Language in the Hebrew Bible, Exemplified in Isaiah 42, 46, and 49
Volume 32
Similar Books
Athanasius of Alexandria, Epistula ad episcopos Aegypti et Libyae
Old Slavonic Version and English Translation
Volume 261
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
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
Shame in the Worlds of the Hebrew Bible and Akkadian Texts
A Linguistic Study and Its Implications
Volume 33
Tabernacle, Table, Ark, and Text
Richard of Saint Victor on the Interpretation of Scripture
Volume 67
The Anglo-Norman Bible’s Books of Kings, a Critical Edition
(BL Royal 1 C III, fols 234r-274v)
Volume 37
The Body
Lived, Cultured, Adorned: Essays on Dress and the Body in the Bible and Ancient Near East in Honor of Nili S. Fox
The Compositional History of the Book of Kings
An Analysis of the Evaluative Frameworks in 1 Kings 14–2 Kings 25
The Discourse of Rites
Shaping and Reshaping the (Counter-)Priestly Rituals Conducted Outside the Tabernacle
The Therapeutae as the Best Paradigm for the Contemplative Life
A Contextual Reading of Philo of Alexandria's De Vita Contemplativa
