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Author: Isabel Cranz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-22
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1108830498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA systematic study of how royal illnesses in the Hebrew Bible are evaluated and integrated in literary and historiographical contexts.
Author: Isabel Cranz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-22
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 110890047X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Isabel Cranz offers the first systematic study of royal illness in the Books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles. Applying a diachronic approach, she compares and contrasts how the different views concerning kingship and illness are developed in the larger trajectory of the Hebrew Bible. As such, she demonstrates how a framework of meaning is constructed around the motif of illness, which is expanded in several redactional steps. This development takes different forms and relates to issues such as problems with kingship, the cultic, and moral conduct of individual kings, or the evaluation of dynasties. Significantly, Cranz shows how the scribes living in post-monarchic Judah expanded the interpretive framework of royal illness until it included a message of destruction and a critique of kingship. The physical and mental integrity of the king, therefore, becomes closely tied to his nation and the political system he represents.
Author: Jacob C.-S. Tsang
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Published: 1989
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katharina Pyschny
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 311064715X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHuman leadership is a multifaceted topic in the Hebrew Bible from a synchronic as well as diachronic perspective. A large range of distributions emerges from the successive sharpening or modification of different aspects of leadership. While some of them are combined to a complex figuration of leadership, others remain reserved for certain individuals. Furthermore, it can be considered a consensus within scholarly debate, that concepts of leadership have a certain connection to the history of ancient Israel which is, though, hard to ascertain. Following a previous volume that focused on the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets (BZAW 507), this volume deals with different concepts of leadership in selected Prophetic (Hag/Zech; Jer) and Chronistic literature Ezr/Neh; Chr). They are examined in a literary, (religious-/tradition-) historical and theological perspective. Special emphasis is given to phenomena of transforming authority and leadership claims in exilic/post-exilic times. Hence, the volume contributes to biblical theology and sheds new light on the redaction/reception history of the texts. Not least, it provides valuable insights into the history of religious and/or political “authorities” in Israel and Early Judaism(s).
Author: Julie B. Deluty
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-04-04
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9004690778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Prophet, Intermediary, King: The Dynamics of Mediation in the Biblical World and Old Babylonian Mari, Julie B. Deluty investigates the mediation of prophecy for kings in biblical narratives and the Old Babylonian corpus from Mari. In many cases, the prophet’s message is delivered through a third party—sometimes a royal official or family member—who may exercise a degree of autonomy in the transmission of the words. Drawing on social network theory, the book highlights the importance of third-party intermediaries in the process of communication that lies at the core of biblical and ancient Near Eastern prophecy. Recognition of the place of non-prophetic intermediaries in a monarchic system offers a new dimension to the study of prophecy in antiquity.
Author: Mark W. Hamilton
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2005-11-01
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9047415434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book rethinks the problem of Israelite kingship by examining how the male royal body and its self-presentation figured in the governance of the dual monarchies of Israel and Judah. As such, this is a reopening of old questions and an opening to new ones.
Author: Isabel Cranz
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2017-05-05
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9783161549168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiblical scholars frequently attempt to contextualize the Priestly ritual corpus by comparing it to other ancient Near Eastern ritual traditions. This comparative approach tends to detect a hidden polemic at work in the Priestly Source (P) which was meant to highlight its distinctly monotheistic outlook. Isabel Cranz reframes current understandings of P by comparing Priestly rituals of atonement to their Assyro-Babylonian counterparts. In this way she shows how the Priestly ritual corpus is highly specialized and concerns itself primarily with sanctuary maintenance. Viewing P in this new light in turn helps to demonstrate that the authors of P were not interested in discrediting foreign rituals or pushing a monotheistic agenda. Instead P primarily aimed to confirm the Aaronide priests as the only legitimate priestly group fit for service at the altar. Subsequently if a polemical agenda is present in P it can be shown to be directed against rivals and critics of the Aaronide priesthood, not other rituals of the ancient Near East.
Author: James Newman
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Published: 2020
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"There has been a growing consensus among scholars of the Hebrew Bible that Ancient Judahite kingship was a dynamic institution. By that, it is meant that the ideology which legitimated the monarchy adapted to changing political circumstances and took distinct forms in the pre-exilic period. This thesis analyzes both the Biblical text and relevant scholarly literature to describe and summarize two distinct royal ideologies of Ancient Judah: The Zion Royal Ideology and the Deuteronomistic Royal Ideology. It additionally discusses the relevance of archaeological debates concerning the historicity of the United Monarchy to the existence and role of these royal ideologies"--
Author: Hanne Løland Levinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-09-23
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1108983456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book to systematically investigate the texts in the Hebrew Bible in which a character expresses a wish to die. Contrary to previous scholarship on these texts that assumed these death wishes were simply a desire to escape suffering, Hanne Løland Levinson employs narrative criticism and conversation analysis, together with diachronic methods, to carefully hear each death-wish text in its literary context. She demonstrates that death wishes embody powerful, multi-faceted rhetorical strategies. Grouping the death-wish texts into four main rhetorical strategies of negotiation, expression of despair and anger, longing to undo one's existence, and wishing for a different reality, Løland Levinson portrays the complex reasons why characters in the Hebrew Bible wish for death. She concludes that the death wishes navigate the tension between longing for death and fighting for survival - a tension that many live with also today as they attempt to claim agency and autonomy in life.
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 24
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