The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Ancient Israel (eBook)
568 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-77392-5 (ISBN)
* A methodologically sophisticated overview of ancient Israelite culture that provides insights into political and social history, culture, and methodology
* Explores what we can say about the cultures and history of the people of Israel and Judah, but also investigates how we know what we know
* Presents fresh insights, richly informed by a variety of approaches and fields
* Delves into 'religion as lived,' an approach that asks about the everyday lives of ordinary people and the material cultures that they construct and experience
* Each essay is an original contribution to the subject
Susan Niditch is Samuel Green Professor of Religion at Amherst College. Her research and teaching interests include the study of ancient Israelite literature from the perspectives of the comparative and interdisciplinary fields of folklore and oral studies; biblical ethics with special interests in war, gender, and the body; the reception history of the Bible; and study of the rich symbolic media of biblical ritual texts. Recent publications include Judges: A Commentary (2008)and My Brother Esau Is a Hairy Man: Hair and Identity in Ancient Israel (2008). Her current project deals with personal religion and late biblical literature.
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xv
Editor's Introduction 1
Part I Methodology: Questions, Concepts, Approaches, and Tools 9
A Contextualizing Israelite Culture
1 Archaeology:What It Can Teach Us 13
Elizabeth Bloch-Smith
2 Israel in Its Neighboring Context 28
Song-Mi Suzie Park
3 Ancient Egypt and Israel: History, Culture, and the Biblical Text 47
John R. Huddlestun
4 Text and Context in Biblical Studies: A Brief History of a Troubled Relationship 67
Steven Weitzman
B Hebrew Bible and Tracking Israelite History and Culture
5 Folklore and Israelite Tradition: Appreciation and Application 87
Susan Niditch
6 The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: Sources, Compositional Layers, and Other Revisions 103
David M. Carr
7 Linguistics and the Dating of Biblical Literature 118
Ohad Cohen
8 Epigraphy:Writing Culture in the Iron Age Levant 131
Christopher A. Rollston
Part II Political History 151
A Origins
9 The Emergence of Israel and Theories of Ethnogenesis 155
Avraham Faust
B Monarchic Period
10 The Early Monarchy and the Stories of Saul, David, and Solomon 177
Brad E. Kelle
11 The Divided Monarchy 197
J. J.M. Roberts
C Postmonarchic Period: In the Land and Diaspora
12 (Re)Defining "Israel": The Legacy of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods 215
Charles E. Carter
13 The Hellenistic Period 241
Matthew J. Goff
Part III Themes in Israelite Culture 257
A God and Gods
14 The Gods of Israel in Comparative Ancient Near Eastern Context 261
Neal Walls
15 Monotheism and the Redefinition of Divinity in Ancient Israel 278
Mark S. Smith
B Mediation: Gods and Humans
16 Priests and Ritual 297
S. A. Geller
17 Prophecy 317
Robert R.Wilson
18 Apocalypticism 333
John J. Collins
C Social Interaction
19 Religion at Home: The Materiality of Practice 347
Francesca Stavrakopoulou
20 Education and the Transmission of Tradition 366
Raymond F. Person, Jr
21 Kinship, Community, and Society 379
T. M. Lemos
22 Law and Legal Literature 396
Bernard M. Levinson and Tina M. Sherman
23 Women's Lives 415
Carol Meyers
24 Economy and Society in Iron Age Israel and Judah: An Archaeological Perspective 433
J. David Schloen
D Artistic Expression
25 Verbal Art and Literary Sensibilities in Ancient Near Eastern Context 457
Edward L. Greenstein
26 The Flowering of Literature in the Persian Period: The Writings/Ketuvim 476
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
27 Hellenistic Period Literature in the Land of Israel 493
Benjamin G.Wright III
28 Art and Iconography: Representing Yahwistic Divinity 510
Theodore J. Lewis
Index 535
This is a tremendous collection of essays that will serve as an updated handbook for students and scholars alike who wish to gain entry into a particular aspect or period of ancient Israelite history.
Cindy Chapman, Oberlin College
I had begun to think that there were already too many handbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopedias of the biblical world on the market for yet another one. But reading through this new volume, superbly planned and organized by Susan Niditch, showed me how wrong I was. There is frankly nothing quite like it. In an exceptionally comprehensive way, it explores what ancient Israel was all about: the varied aspects of its culture and society, the multiple historical contexts in which it existed, and the range of perspectives, literary, archaeological, religious, social scientific, from which modern interpreters must understand it. The volume, thus, is not only a survey of the facts and features of Israel's history and culture, as is typical of many handbooks. Even more, it is a searching inquiry into how we know what we know or think we know: what are the major issues of interpretation and how to evaluate them. Editor Niditch has not been afraid to encourage differing points of view on these issues and the evidence for them from her contributors, which her cross-referencing throughout helps the reader to appreciate. And the contributors - a well-respected international group from junior to senior scholars - have not been afraid to be provocative in what they have to say. Unquestionably, this volume will become a cornerstone for all future work on the study of ancient Israel.
Peter Machinist, Harvard University
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.10.2015 |
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Reihe/Serie | Blackwell Companions to Religion |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
Schlagworte | Altes Testament • Ancient Culture • Classical Studies • Humanistische Studien • Judaism • Judentum • Klassisches Altertum • Old Testament • Religion & Theology • Religion u. Theologie |
ISBN-10 | 1-118-77392-6 / 1118773926 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-118-77392-5 / 9781118773925 |
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