Anne Katrine Gudme, Ingrid Hjelm

Myths of Exile (eBook, ePUB)

History and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Babylonian exile in 587-539 BCE is often presented as a key factor for the religious and literary developments found in the Hebrew Bible. However, the theme of exile should not be viewed as an echo of a single traumatic historical event, but rather as a literary motif that is repeatedly reworked by biblical authors.

Myths of Exile provides a critical and comparative assessment of motifs of estrangement and belonging in the Hebrew Bible and related literature. Demonstrating that such tales are a common formative narrative in the literature of the ancient Near-East, this book forms the basis for a fresh understanding of these exile myths as identity-building literary phenomena.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317501220
• Artikelnr.: 43075750

Autorenporträt

Rob Barrett worked on a Sofja-Kovalevskaja research project on early Jewish monotheisms from 2009 to 2012, is author of Disloyalty and Destruction: Religion and Politics in Deuteoronomy and the Modern World, and is now Director of Forums and Scholarship at The Colossian Forum.

Dominic S. Irudayaraj holds graduate degrees in Biblical Studies and Computers. He taught at Herat University, Afghanistan and at Andhra Loyola College, India. He is currently a doctoral student at Jesuit School of Theology of SCU, CA.

Ingrid Hjelm, Associate Professor, Department of Biblical Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. Author of Jerusalem's Rise to Sovereignty: Zion and Gerizim in Competition (T&T Clark International, 2004) and The Samaritans and Early Judaism. A Literary Analysis (Sheffield Academic Press, 2000).

Niels Peter Lemche, Professor of theology at the University of Copenhagen 1987-2013. Founding member of the "Copenhagen School". His work has concentrated on Israelite history, and more recently on the Old Testament as a Hellenistic book.

Roberto Piani, Biblical and Theological Adviser, Catholic Church in Bremen, Germany. Licentiate (2009) in Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, Italy. Contributor to the journal Aggiornamenti Sociali, Milan, Italy.

Fabio Porzia, Master in Old Testament Exegesis at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome (Italy), currently a PhD student at the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (France) and the University of Florence (Italy), working on the development of the Jewish identity during the first millennium BCE.

Cian Power is a doctoral student at Harvard University's Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department. Cian's dissertation examines the attitudes of the authors of the Hebrew Bible towards language and languages.

Thomas L. Thompson is Professor Emereritus from the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives (1974); The Bible in History (1999); The Messiah Myth (2005); Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme and Ingrid Hjelm
Part I: Creating Exilic Identities
1. Exile as the Great Divide: Would There be an 'Ancient Israel' without an
Exile?
Niels Peter Lemche
2. God Leading His People: Exodus' Longue Durée
Fabio Porzia
3. Exile and Return and the Closure of the Samaritan and Jewish Canons
Ingrid Hjelm
4. Constructions of Exile in the Persian Period
Cian Power
5. Exile as Pilgrimage?
Ingrid Hjelm
6. Psalm 137: Exile as Hell!
Niels Peter Lemche
Part II: Motifs of Exile and Return
7. Sheep without a Shepherd. Genesis' Discourse on Justice and
Reconciliation as Exile's Raison d'Etre
Thomas L. Thompson
8. Idol-Taunt and Exilic Identity: A Dalit Reading of Isa 44:9-20
Dominic S. Irudayaraj
9. Exile and Emergent Monotheism: Learning Loyalty from Jeremiah 42-44
Rob Barrett
10. The Return from Exile in Ezra-Nehemiah
Roberto Piani