Prophets, Priests, and Promises

Essays on the Deuteronomistic History, Chronicles, and Ezra-Nehemiah
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44485-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 186, 452 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 862 g

Reihe: Vetus Testamentum, Supplements

Shortly before his untimely death Gary Knoppers prepared a number of articles on the historical books in the Hebrew Bible for this volume. Many had not previously been published and the others were heavily revised. They combine a fine attention to historical method with sensitivity for literary-critical analysis, constructive use of classical as well as other sources for comparative evidence, and wide-ranging attention to economic, social, religious, and political circumstances relating in particular to the Persian and early Hellenistic periods. Knoppers advances many new suggestions about significant themes in these texts, about how they relate one to another, and about the light they shed on the various communities’ self-consciousness at a time when new religious identities were being forged.

Autoren/Hrsg.

N Knoppers, Gary

Maier, Christl M

Williamson, Hugh G M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface

Sources

Abbreviations

Introduction

H.G.M. Williamson

Part 1: History and Historiography in Ancient Judah

1 Constructing the Israelite Past in Ancient Judah (I)

1 Introductory Observations

2 Chronological Segmentation and Typology in Deuteronomistic Historiography

2 From Israel to Judah in the Deuteronomistic Writing: A History of Calamities?

1 Challenges Posed by Deuteronomy’s Mandate for the Unification of Yahwistic Worship

2 From the Steppes of Moab to the City of David

3 “Cast from My Presence”: The Promises Annulled?

4 From Solomon to the End of the Davidic Kingdom

5 Conclusions

3 Constructing the Israelite Past in Ancient Judah (II)

1 Introductory Observations

2 Selectivity and Segmentation in Ezra-Nehemiah

3 Selection and Segmentation in the Chronistic Writing

4 Conclusions

Part 2: Mimesis, Prophetic Succession, and Scribal Prophecy

4 Synoptic Texts, Mimesis, and the Problem of “Rewritten Bible”

1 Old is Good: An Overview of Mimesis in the Ancient World

2 Reliving the Past? Examples of Mimetic Literature in the Ancient World

3 Rewritten Bible or Mimesis?

4 Out with the Old, In with the New: Disputes and Dangers in the Use of Mimesis

5 Conclusions

5 Theft or Mimesis? The Non-Citation of Older Writings in Chronicles

1 Chronicles and Joshua

2 The Source Citations in Chronicles and in Kings

3 Conclusions

6 “As It is Written”: What Were the Chronicler’s Prophetic Sources?

1 Prophetic Sources in Chronicles: Recent Studies

2 Written Prophetic Works—Unity amid Diversity?

3 Prophetic Sources and the Evaluation of the Past

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Über Autor(innen)

Gary N. Knoppers (1956 – 2018), PhD Harvard University 1988, was John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. His research included ancient historiography, ancient Near Eastern and biblical law, inner-biblical exegesis, and the history of early Jewish and Samaritan relations. He authored numerous books, among them the Anchor Yale Bible commentary on 1 Chronicles 1–9 and 10-29 (2004) and Jews and Samaritans: The Origins and History of Their Early Relations (OUP, 2013).

Christl M. Maier, Dr. theol. 1994 at Humboldt-University Berlin, Professor of Old Testament at the University of Marburg, Germany, and editor-in-chief of Supplements to Vetus Testamentum. She has published extensively on Wisdom Literature, Old Testament prophecy, and Feminist Hermeneutics, her latest work being a commentary on Jeremia 1–25 for Internationaler Exegetischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2021).

H. G. M. Williamson, PhD 1975 at Cambridge University, was the Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford until his retirement in 2014. His early research focussed on the books of Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah, including Israel in the Books of Chronicles (1977) and commentaries on both sets of texts. More recently he has worked on Isaiah, on which he is preparing part of the International Critical Commentary (2006, 2018, and forthcoming).