Historical and Biblical Israel. The history, tradition, and archives of Israel and Judah. / Reinhard G. Kratz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kratz, Reinhard Gregor, 1957-

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--History of Biblical events.

Bible.

History of Biblical events.

Bible--History of contemporary events.

History of contemporary events.

Palestine--History--To 70 A.D.

Palestine.

Palestine--In Christianity.

Palestine in Christianity.

Middle East--Palestine.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

288 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Corby : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

At the center of this book lies a fundamental yet unanswered question: under which historical and sociological conditions and in which manner the Hebrew Bible became an authoritative tradition, that is, holy scripture and the canon of Judaism as well as Christianity. Reinhard G. Kratz answers this very question by distinguishing between historical and biblical Israel. This foundational and, for the arrangement of the book, crucial distinction affirms that the Israel of biblical tradition, i.e., the sacred history (historia sacra) of the Hebrew Bible, cannot simply be equated with the history of Israel and Judah. Thus, Kratz provides a synthesis of both the Israelite and Judahite history and the genesis and development of biblical tradition in two separate chapters, though each area depends directly and inevitably upon the other.0.

Contents:

Part A The History of Israel and Judah

I The Premises 9

1 Beginning and End 9

2 The Sources 11

3 The Setting 14

4 The Origins of Israel 15

II The Two Kingdoms 18

1 Transition to the Monarchy 18

2 Saul, David, and Solomon 19

3 The Kingdom of Israel 21

4 The Kingdom of Judah 27

III The Two Provinces 34

1 Samaria, Judah, and the Diaspora 34

2 The Hasmonean Kingdom 39

3 The Herodian Kingdom 45

IV An Outline of Religious History 48

1 The Religion of Israel and Judah 48

2 The Biblical Tradition 51

3 The Jewish Religion 54

Part B The Biblical Tradition

I The Premises 61

1 Scribal Culture and Biblical Tradition 61

2 Scribes and Scribal Schools 62

3 Writing and Writing Media 64

4 Pre-Biblical Written Sources 66

II Transformation into Biblical Tradition 75

1 From Weal to Woe: The Prophetic Tradition 76

2 From People of State to People of God: The Narrative Tradition 79

3 From Justice to Law: The Legislative Tradition 84

4 From Divine Kingship to Kingdom of God: The Psalmic Tradition 87

5 From Sages to Pious: The Sapiential Tradition 90

III The Books of the Hebrew Bible 93

1 The Law (Torah) 95

2 The Prophets (Nevi'im) 99

3 The Writings (Ketuvim) 101

4 Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha 102

IV A Sketch of Literary History 105

1 Historical and Biblical Israel 106

2 The Era of the Two Kingdoms 108

3 The End of Israel 110

4 The End of Judah 114

5 The Era of the Two Provinces 117

6 A View of the Para-Biblical Tradition 121

Part C Jewish Archives

I The Locations of Literature 133

II Between Elephantine and Qumran 137

1 Elephantine 137

2 Al-Yahudu 147

3 Qumran 153

4 Gerizim 165

5 Jerusalem 181

6 Alexandria 187

III Israel and Judaism 197

1 Non-Biblical and Biblical Judaism 197

2 History and Tradition 203.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780198728771

0198728778

OCLC:

913852781