Leadership, social memory, and Judean discourse in the fifth-second centuries BCE
By: edited by Diana V. Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi
Series: Worlds of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean; Worlds of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Sheffield, South Yorkshire; Bristol, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781781792681; 9781781792698
Subjects: History; Bible; Judaism; Leadership in the Bible; Frühjudentum; Criticism, interpretation; Kollektives Gedächtnis; Bibel; Leadership; Biblical teaching; Politische Führung; Post-exilic period (Judaism); Führung
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Diana V. Edelman; title: Memory and political thought in the late Persian/early Hellenistic Yehud/Judah : some observations  -- Ehud Ben Zvi; title: Memories of Judah's past leaders utilized as propaganda in Yehud  -- James M. Bos; title: Mystified authority : legitimating leadership through "lost books"  -- Kåre Berge; title: Israel's king as primus inter pares : the "democratic" re-conceptualization of monarchy in Deut 17:14-20  -- Reinhard Müller; title: The kingdom of God in Samuel  -- Geoffrey P. Miller; title: Reconsidering Davidic kingship in Ezekiel  -- Christophe Nihan; title: Imagining the memory of an elder : Job 29-30  -- Terje Stordalen; title: At the hands of foreign kings : divine endorsement of foreign rulers in the Hebrew Bible in the memory of Persian and Hellenistic Yehud  -- Thomas M. Bolin; title: At the crossroads of Persian and Hellenistic ideology : the book of Esther as "political theology"  -- Beate Ego; title: Models of local political leadership in the Nehemiah memoir  -- Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley; title: The three constitutions in Greek political thought  -- Lynette Mitchell; title: Monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy in the constitutional debate in Herodotus and in I Samuel 8  -- Wolfgang Oswald; title: Remembering Samson in a Hellenized Jewish context (Judges 13-16)  -- Diana V. Edelman; title: Judith Maccabee? On leadership, resistance, and the great deeds of little people -- Anne-Mareike Schol-Wetter.