Myths of exile
Subtitle: history and metaphor in the Hebrew Bible
By: edited by Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme and Ingrid Hjelm
Edition: First [edition].
Series: Copenhagen international seminar; Copenhagen international seminar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781138886896; 9781315714516; 9781317501220; 9781317501237; 9781317501213
Subjects: Metaphor in the Bible; Jews; Exil; Criticism, interpretation; Exegese; Juifs; Exil dans la littérature rabbinique; Bibel; Bible; Biblical teaching; Exile (Punishment); Metapher; History
Description: "Myths of Exile challenges the traditional understanding of 'the Exile' as a monolithic historical reality and instead provides a critical and comparative assessment of motifs of estrangement and belonging in the Hebrew Bible and related literature. Using selected texts as case studies, this book demonstrates how tales of exile and return can be described as a common formative narrative in the literature of the ancient Near East, a narrative that has been interpreted and used in various ways depending on the needs and cultural contexts of the interpreting community. Myths of Exile is a critical study which forms the basis for a fresh understanding of these exile myths as identity-building literary phenomena"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Exile as the great divide: would there be an 'ancient Israel' without an exile? / Niels Peter Lemche; title: God leading his people: Exodus' longue duree / Fabio Porzia; title: Exile and return and the closure of the Samaritan and Jewish canons / Ingrid Hjelm; title: Constructions of exile in the Persian period / Cian Power; title: Exile as pilgrimage / Ingrid Hjelm; title: Psalms 137: Exile as hell! / Niels Peter Lemche; title: Sheep without a shepherd: Genesis' discourse on justic and reconciliation as exile's raison d'etre / thomas L. Thompson; title: Idol-taunt and exilic identity: a Dalit reading of Isaiah 44:9-20 / Dominic S. Irudayaraj; title: Exile and emergent monotheism: learning loyalty from Jeremiah 42-44 / Rob Barrett; title: The return from exile in Ezra-Nehemiah / Roberto Piani.