History, memory, Hebrew scriptures : a festschrift for Ehud Ben Zvi / edited by Ian Douglas Wilson and Diana V. Edelman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Ian Douglas, 1981- editor.

Edelman, Diana Vikander, 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ben Zvi, Ehud, 1951- honouree.

Ben Zvi, Ehud.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492 p.)

Place of Publication:

Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ehud Ben Zvi is one of the foremost scholars in the field of Hebrew Bible today. He has had a global impact both as a researcher and as a teacher, and he continues to create cutting-edge research that is helping to shape the future of the field. This volume marks his upcoming retirement from the University of Alberta and honors him and his career as a scholar and educator. Thirty-one papers written by a select group of colleagues, including several former students and a former teacher, are presented under three sub-headings: History and Historiography; Prophecy and Prophetic Books; and Methods, Observations, (Re)Readings. These categories represent the wide-ranging interests of Ehud himself and include contributions on the Bible as social memory, for which he has been a leading advocate and theorist in the past decade. Contributors include R. Albertz, Y. Amit, B. Becking, K. Berge, M. J. Boda, A. Brenner-Idan, P. R. Davies, D. V. Edelman, M. H. Floyd, S. Gilmayr-Bucher, L. L. Grabbe, P. Guillaume, L. Jonker, G. N. Knoppers, S. Kostamo, F. Landy, T. Langille, C. Levin, J. R. Linville, W. Morrow, C. Nihan, S. B. Noegel, J. Nogalski, R. M ller, N. Na'aman, R. Nelson, F. Polak, K. Ristau, P. J. Sabo, C. Walsh, and I. D. Wilson. Readers, regardless of their areas of specialization, will find many stimulating and thought-provoking contributions in the collection, which is fitting, given the boundary-pushing work of the honoree.

Contents:

Title; Contents; Preface; I - History and Historiography; Shechem in Deuteronomy: A Seemingly Hidden Polemic, by Yairah Amit; Menachem's Massacre of Tiphsah: At the Crossroads of Grammar and Memory (2 Kings 15:16), by Bob Becking; Male Royals and their Ethnically Foreign Mothers: The Implications for Textual Politics, by Athalya Brenner-Idan; Images of Tranquility in the Book of Judges, by Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher; When the Foreign Monarch Speaks about the Israelite Tabernacle, by Gary N. Knoppers

Putting the Neighbors in their Place: Memory and Mindscape in Deuteronomy 2:10-12, 20-23, by William MorrowRighteous Kings, Evil Kings, and Israel's Non-Monarchic Identity: Different Voices on the Failure of Israelite Kingship in the Book of Kings, by Reinhard Müller; A Request for Blessing and Prosperity in an Inscription from Samaria, by Nadav Naʼaman; Solomon's Administrative Districts: A Scholarly Illusion, by Richard D. Nelson; Conceptions of the Past and Sociocultural Grounding in the Books of Samuel, by Frank H. Polak

"In the House of Judah, My Father's House": The Character of Joab in the Book of Chronicles, by Kenneth A. RistauChronicles and Utopia: Likely Bedfellows?, by Ian Douglas Wilson; II - Prophecy and Prophetic Books; When God's Voice Breaks Through: Shifts in Revelatory Rhetoric in Zechariah 1-8, by Mark J. Boda; The Chronological Limits of Reshaping Social Memory in the Presence of Written Sources: The Case of Ezekiel in Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Yehud, by Philippe Guillaume

Some Sort of "Chronistic" Additions to the Torah? New Perspectives in the Formation of Exod 19-20, by Rainer AlbertzSites of Memory and the Presence of the Past in Ehud Ben Zvi's "Social Memory", by Kåre Berge; The Jerusalem Literary Circle, by Philip R. Davies; The Metaphor of Torah as a Life-Giving Well in the Book of Deuteronomy, by Diana V. Edelman; The Ritual of Reading and the Dissemination of Prophetic and Other Authoritative Texts in Second Temple Judaism, by Michael H. Floyd; History and the Nature of Cultural Memory: The Alamo and the "Masada Complex", by Lester L. Grabbe

Between the Words I Write, by Francis Landy

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-57506-392-1

OCLC:

911180279