Tobolowsky 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: 978-3-16-155597-8
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 232 mm x 155 mm

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Dedication;6
3;Table of Contents;8
4;Introduction: Genealogical Myth and Biblical History;12
4.1;A. Biblical Genealogies, Oral Genealogies, Greek Genealogies;13
4.2;B. The State of the Evidence: Israel and Judah in Early Epigraphy and Archaeology;23
4.3;C. Archaeology and the United Monarchy;31
4.4;D. Historical Panisraeliteism and Biblical Panisraeliteism;38
4.5;E. Looking Forward;49
5;Chapter 1: The History of the Tribal System, Part I;54
5.1;A. What Do Differences Between Tribal Lists Mean?;56
5.2;B. Where to Start? Judges 5, and the First Phase of the Tribal System;62
5.3;C. Genesis 49: The Blessing of Jacob;66
5.4;D. Deuteronomy 33: The Last Israelite Vision;74
6;Chapter 2: The History of the Tribal System, Part II: The Priestly Invention of the Twelve Tribes of Israel;79
6.1;A. Introduction to the Priestly Source;80
6.2;B. The Earliest Twelve Tribe Lists;82
6.3;C. Where the Tribal System Is and Where It Is Not;89
6.4;D. The Meaning of Small Differences;91
7;Chapter 3: Jacob, Joseph, and the Birth of the Tribal-Genealogical Idea;96
7.1;A. Tradition Criticism and Narrative Development;97
7.2;B. The Tribal Birth Narratives;104
7.3;C. The Joseph Novella: Unified or Divided, Early or Late?;115
8;Chapter 4: The Tribal-Genealogical Layer;122
8.1;A. Genesis and What Follows: An Introduction;122
8.2;B. Genesis 35:22-26 and 46:8-25: The First Lists;127
8.3;C. Exodus 1:1-6:27: The Making of a "Panisraelite Anthology";136
8.4;D. Numbers 1:20, 26:5-62, and the Tribal-Genealogical Layer;141
8.5;E. The Tribal-Genealogical Layer, Considered as a Whole;146
9;Chapter 5: The Primary History: Other Methods of Combination;150
9.1;A. The “Oath Promise Layer”;151
9.2;B. The David Tradition;157
9.3;C. David’s Descendants: Panisraelite Cross-References in the Books of Kings;162
9.4;D. Joshua 24, 1 Kings 18:31, and Undocumented Harmonizations;165
10; Chapter 6: The Chronicles Genealogy, the Catalogue of Women, and the Project of the Tribal-Genealogical System;172
10.1;A. Introduction to the Chronicles Genealogy;174
10.2;B. The Composition of the Chronicles Genealogy;178
10.3;C. The Pseudo-Hesiodic Catalogue of Women;184
10.4;D. Chronicles and the Catalogue: The Tools of the Genealogist;190
11;Chapter 7: The Sons of Jacob and the Sons of Herakles;199
11.1;A. The Return of the Herakleidai;200
11.2;B. The Sons of Herakles and the Sons of Jacob;212
11.3;C. The Meaning of Small Differences, Part II: Myth and Meaning;214
12;Chapter 8: Where, When, and How;221
12.1;A. The Bible in Persian Period Texts and the Tribal-Genealogical Layer;223
12.2;B. The Whole Picture;232
13;Conclusion: The Triple Coincidence: Text, Ethnicity, Genealogy;243
13.1;A. Text;245
13.2;B. Ethnicity;249
13.3;C. Genealogy;253
14;Bibliography;258
15;Index of References;286
15.1;Hebrew Bible;286
16;Index of Subjects;293

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.