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Community identity in Judean historiography : biblical and comparative perspectives
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- Creator
- edited by Gary N. Knoppers and Kenneth A. Ristau
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2009
- Physical Details
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- x, 286 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781575066110, 1575066114, 1575061651, 9781575061658
- OCLC
- on1262307463, ocn788432074, ocn317361689
- "This volume is largely the outcome of presentations made in the Ancient Historiography Seminar of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies/Société canadienne des études bibliques at its 2007 annual meeting in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan"--Introduction.
- 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
Subjects
- Bible. Old Testament -- Historiography -- Congresses.
- Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses.
- Jews -- History -- To 70 A.D. -- Historiography -- Congresses.
- Jews -- Identity -- History -- Congresses.
- Jews -- Identity -- Historiography -- Congresses.
- Ethnicity in the Bible -- Congresses.