Texts, contexts and readings in postexilic literature : explorations into historiography and identity negotiation in Hebrew Bible and related texts /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Jonker, Louis C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2011]
Series:Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 53.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : reflecting on historiography and identity negotiation / Louis Jonker
  • The writings of history as remedy or poison? : some remarks on Paul Ricoeur's reflections on memory, identity and "the historiographical operation" / Robert Vosloo
  • Exile, return, and diaspora : expatriates and repatriates in late biblical literature / Gary Knoppers
  • Engaging with different contexts : a survey of the various levels of identity negotiation in Chronicles / Louis Jonker
  • 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
  • Contextuality in Wisdom literature : the provenance of LXX Proverbs and Job as case studies / Johann Cook
  • Achaemenid rule and its impact on Yehud / Josef Wiesehöfer
  • Persian-period Judah : a new perspective / Oded Lipschitts
  • "A tale of two cities" : the visual symbol systems of Yehud and Samaria and identity : self-understanding in Persian-period Palestine / Izak Cornelius
  • Why Asa was not deemed good enough : a decolonial reading of 2 Chronicles 14-16 / Gerrie Snyman
  • Imbokodo explorations of the prevalence of historical memory and identity contestations in the expulsion of the Nāšîm Nokriyyōt in Ezra 9-10 / Makhosazana Nzimande.