From gods to God : the dynamics of Iron Age cosmologies / Baruch Halpern ; edited by Matthew J. Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halpern, Baruch.

Contributor:

Adams, Matthew J. (Matthew Joel)

Series:

Forschungen zum Alten Testament - Band 63

Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 0940-4155 ; 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmology.

Iron age--Religious aspects--History.

Iron age.

Monotheism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (571 p.)

Edition:

1. Aufl.

Place of Publication:

Tubingen : Mohr Siebeck, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hauptbeschreibung The birth of the West stems from the rejection of tradition. All our evidence for this influence comes from the Axial period, 800-400 BCE. Baruch Halpern explores the impact of changing cosmologies and social relations on cultural change in that era, especially from Mesopotamia to Israel and Greece, but extending across the Mediterranean, not least to Egypt and Italy. In this volume he shows how an explosion of international commerce and exchange, which can be understood as a Renaissance, led to the redefinition of selfhood in various cultures and to Reformation. T

Contents:

Cover; Dedication; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: The Rejection of Tradition; Chapter 1. "Brisker Pipes than Poetry": The Development of Israelite Monotheism; Introduction; I; II; III; IV; Chapter 2. The Baal (and the Asherah) in Seventh-Century Judah: Yhwh's Retainers Retired; Chapter 3. Yhwh the Revolutionary: Reflections on the Rhetoric of Redistribution in the Social Context of Dawning Monotheism; Contemporary Understandings of the Theology of the Hebrew Bible: Problems and Prospects; Revolutionary Religious Rhetoric and the Powerful Elite

Prophetic Critique as a Social-Control MechanismYhwh's Identity in Essentialist and Functional Views; The Name Yhwh and History; Chapter 4. The False Torah of Jeremiah 8 in the Context of Seventh Century BCE Pseudepigraphy: The First Documented Rejection of Tradition; Part II: Cultural Transformations and Composition; Chapter 5. The Resourceful Israelite Historian: The Song of Deborah and Israelite Historiography; I. Some Issues and Implications; II. The Problem and the Text; III. Treatments of the Problem; IV. Conclusions, Implications

Chapter 6. Doctrine by Misadventure: Between the Israelite Source and the Biblical HistorianI; II; III; IV; Chapter 7. Sacred History and Ideology: Chronicles' Thematic Structure: Indications of an Earlier Source; Introduction; I; II; III; IV; Chapter 8. The Editions of Kings in the 7th-6th Centuries BCE; Introduction; I; II.i; II.ii; II.iii; II.iv; II.v; III; IV.i; IV.ii; IV.iii; V.i; V.ii; V.iii; VI.i; VI.ii; VI.iii; VI.iv; VI.v; VII.i; VII.ii; VIII; IX; Chapter 9. Why Manasseh is Blamed for the Babylonian Exile: The Evolution of a Biblical Tradition; I. The Question

II. The Strategy of Explanation in ChroniclesA. Chronicles on the Exile; B. Collective Sin (36:14); C. Profaning the Temple (36:14); D. Prophetic Cautions (36:15); E. Prophecy as a Mark of Divine Sympathy and its Mockery (36:15-16); F. Divine Wrath (36:16); III. Kings and the Account of Josiah; IV. Josiah's Death and the Blaming of Manasseh; A. Huldah's Oracle (2 Kgs 22:15-20; 2 Chr 34:24-8); B. Dating Huldah's Oracle; C. Fulfilling Huldah's Oracle; V. The Exilic strategy of Explanation in Kings; VI. Implications for the Stages of Composition

Part III: The State's Rejection of Religion: Revolution and ReformationChapter 10. Jerusalem and the Lineages in the 7th Century BCE: Kinship and the Rise of Individual Moral Liability; I. Collective or Individual Reward?; II. Assyria in Judah; A. From Field Force to Hedgehog Defense; B. Hezekiah and Friends; C. At Home with Hezekiah; III. Sennacherib's Reforms; A. Sennacherib at Large; B. Sennacherib's Judah; IV. The Countryside Reformed; A. The Depopulation of Judah; B. The Traditional Organization of the Countryside; C. Community in the Clan Sector; V. The Aftermath

VI. The Seventh Century: Renaissance and Reformation

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Druckversion

Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-508) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613513618

9781280012815

1280012811

9783161511042

3161511042

OCLC:

782878469