Title: Why did Paul go west? : Jewish historical narrative and thought /
Authors: Mendels, Doron,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Judaism Historiography; Judaism History
Abstract: Addressing the topic of the authority of texts and their transmission, as well as different strategies of narration in ancient texts, Mendels provides extensive treatment of issues such as linearity, emporality and simultaenity of texts.
Contents: Why did Paul go west? -- How was antiquity treated in societies with a Hellenistic heritage? And why did the rabbis avoid writing history? -- Can we read a historical text as a musical score? A new approach to polyphony and simultaneity in 1 Maccabees -- The conceptual linearity of historical narrative and its distortion: a preliminary note -- Memory and memories: the attitude of 1 and 2 Maccabees toward Hellenization and Hellenism -- Phases of inscribed memory concerning the land of Israel in Palestinian Judaism of the second century BCE: the case of 1 Maccabees -- Etiquette I: was the rejection of gifts one of the reasons for the outbreak of the Maccabean revolt? A preliminary note on the role of gifting in the book of 1 Maccabees -- Etiquette II: honor and humiliation as a factor in Hasmonean politics according to the narrator of 1 Maccabees -- Political theology I: Deus Duplex to Deus Silens: the state of exception in the political theology of 1 Maccabees -- Political theology II: 1 Maccabees and liberation from a competing king-god and the phenomenon of rifts inherent in ancient Israel.