Imagining the Other and Constructing Israelite Identity in the Early Second Temple Period.
This volume sheds light on how particular constructions of the 'Other' contributed to an ongoing process of defining what 'Israel' or an 'Israelite' was, or was supposed to be in literature taken to be authoritative in the late Persian and Early Hellenistic periods. It...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Reviews: | Imagining the Other and Constructing Israelite Identity in the Early Second Temple Period, Ehud Ben Zvi and Diana V. Edelman (eds), Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2014 (ISBN 978-0-56724-872-5), xx + 336 pp., hb £70 (2017) (Askin, Lindsey A.)
[Rezension von: Imagining the Other and Constructing Israelite Identity in the Early Second Temple Period] (2017) (Reif, Stefan C., 1944 -) |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethnoarchaeology Congresses
B Identity (Philosophical concept) Congresses B Jews Identity Congresses B Group Identity Congresses B RELIGION / Generals / Biblical Biography B Ethnicity in the Bible Congresses B Electronic books |
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| Summary: | This volume sheds light on how particular constructions of the 'Other' contributed to an ongoing process of defining what 'Israel' or an 'Israelite' was, or was supposed to be in literature taken to be authoritative in the late Persian and Early Hellenistic periods. It asks, who is an insider and who an outsider? Are boundaries permeable? Are there different ideas expressed within individual books? What about constructions of the (partial) 'Other' from inside, e.g., women, people whose body did not fit social constructions of normalness? It includes chapters dealing with theoretical issues and case studies, and addresses similar issues from the perspective of groups in the late Second Temple period so as to shed light on processes of continuity and discontinuity on these matters. Preliminary forms of five of the contributions were presented in Thessaloniki in 2011 in the research programme, 'Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the Persian and Hellenistic Period,' at the Annual Meeting of European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS). Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- The Other: Sociological Perspectives in a Postcolonial Age -- The Other as a Sociological Concept -- The Causality of Difference in Identifying the Other -- The Other as the Body Upon Which Power Relations Are Written -- Othering via Projection -- The Other as a Source, or Product, of Conflict -- Some Final Thoughts -- Othering, Selfing, 'Boundarying' and 'Cross-Boundarying' as Interwoven with Socially Shared Memories: Some Observations -- Yhwh's Othering of Israel -- Introduction -- 1. Divine Strategies for Creating and Defining the In-Group -- 2. Divine Othering Strategies -- 3. Conclusion -- Categorical Identities: 'Ethnified Otherness and Sameness'-Atool for Understanding Boundary Negotiation in the Pentateuch? -- Natives and Immigrants in the Social Imagination of the Holiness School -- Introduction -- The Advent of the Native in H -- Conclusion -- Gender and Identity in the Book of Numbers -- Part 1, Numbers 1-10 -- Part 2, Numbers 11-25 -- Part 3: Numbers 26-36 -- Women on the Edge -- The Concept of the Woman as Other -- The Other on the Edge -- Conclusion -- Ruth: Aborn-again Israelite? One Woman's Journey Through Space and Time -- Prelude -- Introduction -- Ethnic Theory and Biblical Israel -- Creative Speech -- Ruth's Transition into Israel: An Extreme Ethnic Make-Over -- Overcoming Otherness in the Book of Ruth -- Imagined and Forgotten Communities: Othering in the Story of Josiah's Reform (2 Kings 23) -- I -- II -- III -- Jonah and the Other: Adiscourse on Interpretative Competence -- 1. Shaping the Background: Jonah and the 'Oracles Concerning the Nations' -- 2. Inside the Story: Jonah and the Foreign Worlds -- 3. Jonah and a Discourse on Interpretative Competence. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (358 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0567655342 |