Yahwistic Diversity and the Hebrew Bible
Tracing Perspectives of Group Identity from Judah, Samaria, and the Diaspora in Biblical Traditions
Edited by Benedikt Hensel Edited by Bartosz Adamczewski Edited by Dany Nocquet
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(July 2020)
ISBN: 9783161583049
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The present volume closes an important research gap in the current discussion about post-exilic Israel. The contributions ask about the influence of the processes of differentiation within Israel on the formation of the Old Testament and its textual traditions.
The underlying perspective of the present volume contributes to the recent historical debate on Yahwistic diversity in the Persian and the Hellenistic periods. A broad variety of different Yahwistic (and not necessarily Jewish) groups existed inside and outside Judah during the sixth to first century BCE, for example in Egypt (Elephantine/Jeb and Alexandria), Babylonia (al-Yahudu), Samaria, and Idumea. The main objective of the volume lies in the literary-historical implications of this diversity: How did these groups or their interactions with one another influence the formation of the Hebrew Bible as well as its complex textual transmission? This perspective has not been sufficiently pursued in the more religious and historically oriented research before. The volume comprises thirteen articles by renowned international specialists in the field, which aim at closing this gap in the scholarly discussion.
Benedikt Hensel: Yahwistic Diversity and the Hebrew Bible: State of the Field, Desiderata, and Research Perspectives in a Necessary Debate on the Formative Period of Judaism(s)
Part I: Perspectives for and from Judah, Samaria, and Diaspora? The Debate within the Pentateuch and Hexateuch
Reinhard Achenbach: Die Integration der heiligen Orte der Provinz Samaria in das Narrativ des Hexateuch - Konrad Schmid: The Diaspora as a Blessing for the Nations: The Case of Gen 28:14 - Dany Nocquet: The Question of Israel's Kinship with the Arameans: Rachel and Laban in Gen 31:1 - 32:1: A Samaritan Contribution? - Julia Rhyder: Unity and Hierarchy: North and South in the Priestly Traditions - Raik Heckl: The Temple within the Book and Its Function: Considerations on the Cultic Conception of the Composition of the Torah
Part II: Ongoing Debates - Historical Developments - Intensifying Polemics: Literary-Historical, Text-Historical, Theological, and Historical Aspects of the Formation Processes
Jean Louis Ska: Why is the Chosen People Called Israel and Not Judah? - Hervé Gonzalez/Marc Mendoza: 'What Have the Macedonians Ever Done for Us?' A Reassessment of the Changes in Samaria by the Start of the Hellenistic Period - Stefan Schorch: Where is the Altar? Scribal Intervention in the Book of Joshua and Beyond - Detlef Jericke: Shiloh between Shechem and Jerusalem - Magnar Kartveit: The Tension between the Law and the Prophets as a Background to the Formation of the Samaritan Pentateuch - Veit Dinkelaker: Gen 2:2 Reconsidered: Marginal Notes on a Peculiar Variant in Samaritan, Greek, and other Manuscripts - Jonathan Miles Robker: Die Texttraditionen von 2. Könige 17 als Spiegel der Entwicklung des Verhältnisses von Juden und Samaritanern
- Edited by Benedikt Hensel
- Edited by Bartosz Adamczewski
- Edited by Dany Nocquet
Other Titles in this Series
The Last King(s) of Judah
Zedekiah and Sedekias in the Hebrew and Old Greek Versions of Jeremiah 37(44):1-40(47):6
Volume 89
Punning in Odd or Elegant Constructions in Jeremiah
The Convergence of Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Textuality in the Hebrew Text of Jeremiah
Reforging History in the Persian Era Editing of the Twelve
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
Volume 102
Disability, Faciality, and Redaction
Deterritorializing Disability in the Deuteronomistic Collection
Dieu educateur
Une novelle approche d'un concept de la thologie biblique entre Bible Hebraique, Septante et littrature grecque classique
Volume 77
Das Amosbuch als epische Erzahlung im dramatischen Modus
Ein Beitrag zu den synchronen Lesarten der Prophetenbucher
Volume 141
De-Demonising the Old Testament
An Investigation of Azazel, Lilith, Deber, Qeteb and Reshef in the Hebrew Bible
Volume 37
Das Abrahamopfer im Kontext von Gen 12-25
Narratologische und literarhistorische Untersuchungen
Volume 149
Die Semantik von Ijob 6-7
Erschliessung ihrer Struktur und einzelner Lexeme mittels Isotopieanalyse
Volume 125
Atonement and Purification
Priestly and Assyro-Babylonian Perspectives on Sin and its Consequences
Volume 92
On Dating Biblical Texts to the Persian Period
Discerning Criteria and Establishing Epochs
Volume 101
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