Title: Leadership, social memory, and Judean discourse in the fifth-second centuries BCE /
Authors: Edelman, Diana Vikander, 1954-; Ben Zvi, Ehud, 1951-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Leadership Biblical teaching; Leadership in the Bible.; Judaism History; Palestine History
Contents: Memory and political thought in the late Perisan/ealry Hellenistic Yehud/Judah: some observations -- Memories of Judah's past leaders utilized as propaganda in Yehud -- Mystified authority: legitimating leadership through "lost books" -- Israel's king as primus inter pares: the "democratic" re-conceptualization of monarchy in Deut 17;14-20 -- The kingdom of God in Samuel -- Reconsidering Davidic kingship in Ezekiel -- Imagining the memory of and elder: Job 29-30 -- At the hands of foreign kings: divine endorsement of foreign rulers in the Hebrew bible in the memory of Persian and Hellenistic Yehud -- At the crossroads of Persian in Hellenistic ideology: the book of Esther as "political theology" -- Models of local political leadership in the Nehemiah memoir '' The three constitutions in Greek political thought -- Monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy in the constitutional debate in Herodotus and in I Samuel 8 -- Remembering Samson in a Hellenized Jewish context (Judges 13-16) -- Judith Maccabee? On leadership, resistance, and the great deeds of little people.