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Community identity in Judean historiography : biblical and comparative perspectives / edited by Gary N. Knoppers and Kenneth A. Ristau. - Winona Lake, IN : Eisenbrauns, 2009. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Israel and the nomads of ancient Palestine / Kenton L. Sparks -- David : messianic King or mercenary ruler? / John Van Seters -- A comparative study of the exilic gap in ancient Israelite, Messenian, and Zionist collective memory / Katherine M. Stott -- Are there any bridges out there? : how wide was the conceptual gap between the Deuteronomistic history and Chronicles? / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Characters in stone : royal ideology and Yehudite identity in the Behistun inscription and the book of Haggai / James Bowick -- The diaspora in Zechariah 1-8 and Ezra-Nehemiah : the role of history, social location, and tradition in the formulation of identity / John Kessler -- Ethnicity, genealogy, geography, and change : the Judean communities of Babylon and Jerusalem in the story of Ezra / Gary N. Knoppers -- Ezra's mission and the Levites of Casiphia / Mark Leuchter -- Textual identities in the books of Chronicles : the case of Jehoram's history / Louis Jonker -- Reading and rereading Josiah : the Chronicler's representation of Josiah for the postexilic community / Kenneth A. Ristau -- Identity and empire, reality and hope in the Chronicler's perspective / Mark J. Boda.

"Most of the essays in this volume stem from the special sessions of the Historiography Seminar of the Canadian Society for Biblical Studies, held in the late spring of 2007 (University of Saskatoon). The papers in these focused sessions dealt with issues of self-identification, community identity, and ethnicity in Judahite and Yehudite historiography. The scholars present addressed a range of issues, such as the understanding, presentation, and delimitation of 'Israel' in various biblical texts, the relationship of Israelites to Judahites in Judean historical writings, the definition of Israel over against other peoples, and the possible reasons why the ethnoreligious community ('Israel') was the focus of Judahite/Yehudite historiography. Papers approached these matters from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary vantage points. For example, some pursed an inner-biblical perspective (pentateuchal sources/writings, Former Prophets, Latter Prophets, Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah), while other pursued a cross-cultural comparative perspective (ancient Near Eastern, ancient Greek, and Hellenistic historiographies, Western and non-Western historiographic traditions). Still others attempted to relate the material remains to the question of community identity in northern Israel, monarchic Judah, and postmonarchic Yehud."--Back cover


English.

ISBN: 9781575066110 1575066114

Standard No.: 10.1515/9781575066110 doi

Source: 22573/ctv1bw8rx9 JSTOR

LCCN:

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Bible.--Old Testament--Historiography--Congresses.
Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--Congresses.
Bible.--Old Testament
Bibel--Altes Testament

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
To 70

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Jews--History--Historiography--To 70 A.D.--Congresses.
Jews--Identity--History--Congresses.
Jews--Identity--Historiography--Congresses.
Ethnicity in the Bible--Congresses.
Juifs--Histoire--Historiographie--Jusqu'à 70--Congrès.
Juifs--Identité--Histoire--Congrès.
Juifs--Identité--Historiographie--Congrès.
Ethnicité dans la Bible--Congrès.
HISTORY--Ancient--General.
Ethnicity in the Bible
Historiography
Jews--Historiography
Jews--Identity
Kulturelle Identität
Geschichtsschreibung
Gruppenidentität
Geschiedschrijving.
Identiteit.
Etnische identiteit.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Palestina.
Judea.
Saskatchewan <2007>

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

LC Class. No.: DS115.5

Dewey Class. No.: 933.0072