The legacy of Israel in Judah's Bible : history, politics, and the reinscribing of tradition / Daniel Fleming.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleming, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, Narrative.

Bible.

Narration in the Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 385 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Legacy of Israel in Judah's Bible undertakes a comprehensive re-evaluation of the Bible's primary narrative in Genesis through Kings as it relates to history. It divides the core textual traditions along political lines that reveal deeply contrasting assumptions, an approach that places biblical controversies in dialogue with anthropologically informed archaeology. Starting from close study of selected biblical texts, the work moves toward historical issues that may be illuminated by both this material and a larger range of textual evidence. The result is a synthesis that breaks away from conventional lines of debate in matters relating to ancient Israel and the Bible, setting an agenda for future engagement of these fields with wider study of antiquity.

Contents:

Cover; The Legacy of Israel in Judah's Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing of Tradition; Advance Praise for The Legacy of Israel in Judah's Bible; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; PART I: INTRODUCTION: Israel and Judah; 1: Why Israel?; A. Judahs Bible; B. The Problematic Place of Israel; 1. Israel and Judah United; 2. The Breakdown of Consensus; 3. The Implications of Writing under Two Kingdoms; 2: Israel without Judah; A. A Polity, Not an Ethnicity; B. The Political Contrast between Israel and Judah; 1. Judah; 2. Israel

C. The Contributions of Israel and Judah to Biblical NarrativeD. Israel without Judah in History; E. Texts for Closer Study; PART II: ISRAELITE CONTENT IN THE BIBLE; 3: Writing from Judah; A. Judah in Kings: The Primary Narrative; 1. Jerusalem as Capital and Sacred Center; 2. The House of David; 3. No Union of Political Constituents; 4. Collective Participation Defined by the Jerusalem Center; B. Judah's Appropriation of Israelite Identity; 1. Early Expressions in the Prophets; 2. The Books of Chronicles; C. Judah and Its Land; 4: An Association of Peoples in the Land (The Book of Judges)

A. Local Tales: Gideon and Abimelech1. Abimelech; 2. Gideon; B. Collaboration and Competition: The Song of Deborah and the Shibboleth; 1. The Song of Deborah; 2. Shibboleth; C. The Association of Israel; 1. The Song of Deborah; 2. Gideon's Three Hundred (Judges 7); 5: The Family of Jacob; A. The Birth Narrative (Genesis 29:31-30:24) and the Twelve Tribes of Israel; 1. The Jacob Story as Israelite; 2. Evaluating the Twelve-Tribe Tradition in the Jacob Cycle; B. An Extended Genealogy in the Jacob Story; C. Genesis 49: The Sayings of Jacob; 6: Collective Israel and Its Kings; A. Omri; B. David

1. The Transmission of Early David Material2. Israel in the David Narrative; 3. David and Judah; C. 1 Kings 12: The Secession of Davids House; 7: Moses and the Conquest of Eastern Israel; A. The Eastern Invasion; 1. Defining an Israelite Tradition; 2. Sihon and Og; B. The Eastern Tradition of Balaam; 8: Joshua and Ai; A. Joshua the Book; B. Jericho and Ai; 9: Benjamin; A. Benjamin and the Binu Yamina; B. Benjamin and Saul; C. Benjamin Apart: War with Israel; D. Benjamin, Israel, and Judah; 10: Israelite Writers on Early Israel; A. The Herding Tradition; 1. Genesis; 2. Out of Egypt and Beyond

3. The Wilderness in Judahite PerspectiveB. Israelite Biblical Narrative; 1. The Ancestors; 2. Establishment in the Land; 3. Life before and after David; PART III: COLLABORATIVE POLITICS; 11: Collaborative Politics; A. Kingdoms, States, and Tribes; 1. The Kingdom; 2. Tribe and State; B. Approaches to Collaborative Politics; 1. Heterarchy; 2. Corporate and Network Strategies; 12: Outside the Near East; A. Mesoamerican Antiquity and Massive Scale; B. The American Southwest: Cooperation in More Modest Settings; 1. The Communal Sites of the Hohokam in Premodern Arizona

2. Casas Grandes (Chihuahua): The Great Pueblo

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-54030-0

1-107-23198-1

1-283-52848-7

1-139-52751-7

9786613840936

1-139-52631-6

1-139-53217-0

1-139-16303-5

1-139-53098-4

1-139-52870-X

OCLC:

804664899