Imperial visions : the prophet and the book of Isaiah in an age of empires / Reinhard Gregor Kratz, Joachim Schaper (eds.).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aberdeen Prophecy Network. Meeting (5th : 2015 : Göttingen, Germany)

Contributor:

Kratz, Reinhard Gregor, 1957- editor.

Schaper, Joachim, editor.

Series:

Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments ; v. 277.

Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments, 2198-1183 ; volume 277

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Isaiah--History of contemporary events.

Bible.

Isaiah (Biblical prophet).

Isaiah.

Bible. Isaiah.

History of contemporary events.

Assyria--In the Bible.

Assyria.

Iran--In the Bible.

Iran.

Babylon (Extinct city)--In the Bible.

Babylon (Extinct city).

Assyria in the Bible.

Babylon (Extinct city) in the Bible.

Iran in the Bible.

Physical Description:

202 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2020]

Summary:

"In recent years, an interest in empire(s) has emerged in Assyriology, Old Testament/Hebrew Bible Studies and in other areas of the study of the ancient world. Collaborative research projects are devoted to questions of empire and imperialism, and the prophets of Israel and Judah and the books named after them are explored as agents in the contexts of the empires of their times. To some degree, all of this may be seen as a revival of the intense interest which the works of Oswald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee and Karl Wittfogel generated in the twentieth century, in historical situations very different from our own age. But then we too live in an age of transition characterized by insecurity and a lack of orientation and are driven to study the rise and fall of empires through the ages. The present volume, containing essays which are the fruits of the fifth meeting of the Aberdeen Prophecy Network, at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg of the University of Göttingen in October 2015, provides a distinctive perspective on prophecy in the context of empire. It is inspired by the fact that the book of Isaiah enables us to follow the vagaries of a particular prophetic tradition through five centuries under three different empires. The essays in the present volume focus on the history of composition of the constituent parts of the book of Isaiah as well as their correlations with the political and cultural histories of the empires under which they were produced. The volume thus navigates some of the key points of the history of Isaiah and the book named after him." --provided by publisher

Contents:

Part I: Texts from the first Isaiah and the discourse on the Assyrian Empire. The evil empire: Assyria in reality as a cipher in Isaiah / Hugh G. M. Williamson

Assyria and the beginnings of the Book of Isaiah. Isaiah 6+8 and 28-31 revisited / Matthijs J. de Jong

From Carchemish and Calno (isa 10:9) to the Book of Isaiah. Paradigmatic images of imperial hubris in Isa 10:5-15 / Reinhard Müller

Figural history in the Book of Isaiah. The prospective significance of Hezekiah's deliverance from Assyria and death / Jacob Stromberg

Military terminology in Rabshakeh's message, Hebrew 'erev and Akkadian urbī / Ronnie Goldstein

Chronicles-Isaiah-Kings / Graeme Auld.

Part II: Babylon and Persia in the Book of Isaiah and texts from Babylonian, Persian, and Hellenistic times. Isaiah 24-27 and intertextuality / Uwe Becker

Babylon revisted. A new look at Isa 13 and its literary horizon / Anja Klein

Isaiah and the Persians / Reinhard G. Kratz

Land, freedom, and the kingdom of Yahweh in Isaiah 56-66. Trito-Isaiah as an example of resistance literature / Joachim Schaper

LXX Isaiah as prophecy? Supposed historical allusions in LXX Isaiah / Alison Salveseen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783525560358

3525560354

OCLC:

1155931006