The Sons of Jacob and the Sons of Herakles

The History of the Tribal System and the Organization of Biblical Identity
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-16-155191-8
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, Band 96, 283 Seiten, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 154 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe

In this study, Andrew Tobolowsky offers a new approach to biblical descriptions of the tribes of Israel as the "sons of Jacob". He reveals how shifting assumptions about early Israelite history and the absence of references to Jacob in most accounts of the tribes make it unlikely that this understanding was part of early tribal discourse. Instead, drawing on extensive similarities between the role Jacob's children plays in the biblical narrative and the role that shared descent from figures such as Hellen and Herakles play in the construction of ancient Greek histories, Andrew Tobolowsky concludes that the "tribal-genealogical" concept was first developed in the late Persian period as a tool for the production of a newly integrated, newly coherent account of a shared ethnic past: the first continuous biblical vision of Israelite history from Adam to the fall of Jerusalem and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tobolowsky, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Biblische Geschichte & Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Tobolowsky, Andrew
Born 1985; 2015 PhD in Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean; since 2016 Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.