Texts, contexts and readings in postexilic literature
Subtitle: explorations into historiography and identity negotiation in Hebrew Bible and related texts
By: edited by Louis Jonker
Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe -- 53; Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 53.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9783161509759
Subjects: Historiography; Jews; Geschichtsschreibung; Altes Testament; Identität; Historiography in rabbinical literature; History
Description: Periods of socio-historical change often prompt renewed interest in history-writing. Interest in the past is then driven by processes of identity negotiation which facilitate a new orientation in changed circumstances. The Hebrew Bible is an excellent example, containing historiographical writings from different socio-historical periods. Dramatic socio-political and socio-religious changes took place from the sixth to the fourth centuries B.C.E. in Ancient Israel. These changes prompted different processes of identity negotiation through historiographical literature. The authors of the essays collected here explore historiographical and related texts and their contexts in these tumultuous times in order to come to a better understanding of the dynamic relationship between ancient historiography and identity negotiation. They also investigate how this literature could be interpreted in contemporary contexts of socio-historical change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : reflecting on historiography and identity negotiation / Louis Jonker; title: The writings of history as remedy or poison? : some remarks on Paul Ricoeur's reflections on memory, identity and "the historiographical operation" / Robert Vosloo; title: Exile, return, and diaspora : expatriates and repatriates in late biblical literature / Gary Knoppers; title: Engaging with different contexts : a survey of the various levels of identity negotiation in Chronicles / Louis Jonker; title: On social memory and identity formation in late Persian Yehud : a historian's viewpoint with a focus on prophetic literature, Chronicles and the deuteronomistic historical collection / Ehud Ben Zvi; title: Contextuality in Wisdom literature : the provenance of LXX Proverbs and Job as case studies / Johann Cook; title: Achaemenid rule and its impact on Yehud / Josef Wiesehöfer; title: Persian-period Judah : a new perspective / Oded Lipschitts; title: "A tale of two cities" : the visual symbol systems of Yehud and Samaria and identity : self-understanding in Persian-period Palestine / Izak Cornelius; title: Why Asa was not deemed good enough : a decolonial reading of 2 Chronicles 14-16 / Gerrie Snyman; title: Imbokodo explorations of the prevalence of historical memory and identity contestations in the expulsion of the Nāšîm Nokriyyōt in Ezra 9-10 / Makhosazana Nzimande.