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Texts, Contexts and Readings in Postexilic Literature : Explorations into Historiography and Identity Negotiation in Hebrew Bible and Related Texts / edited by Louis Jonker.

Contributor(s): Jonker, Louis C
Material type: TextTextSeries: Forschungen zum Alten Testament: 53.Publisher: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: xi, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 3161509757 (pbk.); 9783161509759 (pbk.)Subject(s): Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D. -- Historiography | Bible. Old Testament | Historiography in rabbinical literatureBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction : Reflecting on Historiography and Identity Negotiation / Louis Jonker -- The Writing of History as Remedy or Poison? : Some Remarks on Paul Ricoeur's Reflections on Memory, Identity, and "The Historiographical Operation" / Robert Vosloo -- Exile, Return, and Diaspora : Expatriates and Repatriates in Late Biblical Literature / Gary Knoppers -- Engaging with Different Contexts : A Survey of the Various Levels of Identity Negotiation in Chronicles / Louis Jonker -- On Social Memory and Identity Formation in Later Persian Yehud : A Historian's Viewpoint with a Focus on Prophetic Literature, Chronicles and the Deuteronomistic Historical Collection / Ehud Ben Zvi --
Contextuality in Wisdom Literature : The Provenance of LXX Proverbs and Job as Case Studies / Johann Cook -- Achaemenid Rule and its Impact on Yehud / Josef Wiesehöfer -- Persian-Period Judah : A New Perspective / Oded Lipschits -- "A Tale of Two Cities" : The Visual Symbol Systems of Yehud and Samaria and Identity/Self-Understanding in Persian-period Palestine / Izak Cornelius -- Why Asa was not Deemed Good Enough : A Decolonial Reading of 2 Chronicles 14-16 / Gerrie Snyman -- Imbokodo Explorations of the Prevalence of Historical Memory and Identity Contestations in the Expulsion of the Nāšîm Nokriyyōt in Ezra 9-10 / Makhosazana Nzimande.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : Reflecting on Historiography and Identity Negotiation / Louis Jonker -- The Writing of History as Remedy or Poison? : Some Remarks on Paul Ricoeur's Reflections on Memory, Identity, and "The Historiographical Operation" / Robert Vosloo -- Exile, Return, and Diaspora : Expatriates and Repatriates in Late Biblical Literature / Gary Knoppers -- Engaging with Different Contexts : A Survey of the Various Levels of Identity Negotiation in Chronicles / Louis Jonker -- On Social Memory and Identity Formation in Later Persian Yehud : A Historian's Viewpoint with a Focus on Prophetic Literature, Chronicles and the Deuteronomistic Historical Collection / Ehud Ben Zvi --

Contextuality in Wisdom Literature : The Provenance of LXX Proverbs and Job as Case Studies / Johann Cook -- Achaemenid Rule and its Impact on Yehud / Josef Wiesehöfer -- Persian-Period Judah : A New Perspective / Oded Lipschits -- "A Tale of Two Cities" : The Visual Symbol Systems of Yehud and Samaria and Identity/Self-Understanding in Persian-period Palestine / Izak Cornelius -- Why Asa was not Deemed Good Enough : A Decolonial Reading of 2 Chronicles 14-16 / Gerrie Snyman -- Imbokodo Explorations of the Prevalence of Historical Memory and Identity Contestations in the Expulsion of the Nāšîm Nokriyyōt in Ezra 9-10 / Makhosazana Nzimande.

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