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Community identity in Judean historiography : biblical and comparative perspectives / edited by Gary N. Knoppers and Kenneth A. Ristau.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks DS115.5 .C655 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Old Testament.
- Jews--History--To 70 A.D--Historiography--Congresses.
- Jews.
- Jews--Identity--History--Congresses.
- Jews--Identity--Historiography--Congresses.
- Ethnicity in the Bible--Congresses.
- Ethnicity in the Bible.
- Bible. Old Testament--Historiography--Congresses.
- Bible.
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Congresses.
- Historiography.
- Jews--Identity.
- History.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- x, 286 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2009.
- Contents:
- Israel and the nomads of ancient Palestine / Kenton L. Sparks
- David : messianic King or mercenary ruler? / John Van Seters
- A comparative study of the exilic gap in ancient Israelite, Messenian, and Zionist collective memory / Katherine M. Stott
- Are there any bridges out there? : how wide was the conceptual gap between the Deuteronomistic history and Chronicles? / Ehud Ben Zvi
- Characters in stone : royal ideology and Yehudite identity in the Behistun inscription and the book of Haggai / James Bowick
- The diaspora in Zechariah 1-8 and Ezra-Nehemiah : the role of history, social location, and tradition in the formulation of identity / John Kessler
- Ethnicity, genealogy, geography, and change : the Judean communities of Babylon and Jerusalem in the story of Ezra / Gary N. Knoppers
- Ezra's mission and the Levites of Casiphia / Mark Leuchter
- Textual identities in the books of Chronicles : the case of Jehoram's history / Louis Jonker
- Reading and rereading Josiah : the Chronicler's representation of Josiah for the postexilic community / Kenneth A. Ristau
- Identity and empire, reality and hope in the Chronicler's perspective / Mark J. Boda.
- Notes:
- "This volume is largely the outcome of presentations made in the Ancient Historiography Seminar of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies/Société canadienne des études bibliques at its 2007 annual meeting in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan"--Introduction.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781575061658
- 1575061651
- OCLC:
- 317361689
- Publisher Number:
- 99937294562
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