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
Prophecy and Foreign Nations
Aspects of the Role of the 'Nations' in the Books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel
Volume 135
Creation and Salvation
Models of Relationship Between the God of Israel and the Nations in the Book of Jonah, in Psalms 33 (MT and LXX) and in the Novel 'Joseph and Aseneth'
Volume 106
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
Schriftgelehrte Fortschreibungs- und Auslegungsprozesse
Textarbeit im Pentateuch, in Qumran, Agypten und Mesopotamien
Volume 108
Achronology in the Priestly Tabernacle Narratives of the Pentateuch
The Scribal Tendency Towards Thematic Arrangement
Silent or Salient Gender?
The Interpretation of Gendered God-Language in the Hebrew Bible, Exemplified in Isaiah 42, 46, and 49
Volume 32
Prophetic Conflicts in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Micah
How Post-Exilic Ideologies Created the False (and the True) Prophets
Volume 121
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