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Imagining the other and constructing Israelite identity in the early Second Temple period / edited by Ehud Ben Zvi and Diana V. Edelman. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 456.Publication details: London ; New York : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, (c)2014.Description: xx, 336 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780567248725
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BS1199.E22.I434 2014
  • BS1199
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Contents:
Introduction Diana V. Edelman -- The other : sociological perspectives in a postcolonial age Jeremiah W. Cataldo -- Othering, selfing, 'boundarying' and 'cross-boundarying' as interwoven with socially shared memories : some observations Ehud Ben Zvi -- YHWH's othering of Israel Diana V. Edelman -- Categorical identities : 'ethnified otherness and sameness' : a tool for understanding boundary negotiation in the Pentateuch? K are Berge -- Natives and immigrants in the social imagination of the Holiness School Mark G. Brett -- Gender and identity in the Book of Numbers Claudia V. Camp -- Women on the edge Carey Walsh -- Ruth, a born-again Israelite? : one woman's journey through space and time Anne-Mareike Wetter -- Overcoming otherness in the Book of Ruth Robert L. Cohn -- Imagined and forgotten communities : othering in the story of Josiah's reform (2 Kings 23) Terje Stordalen -- Jonah and the other : a discourse on interpretative competence Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher -- Denial, deception, or force : how to deal with powerful others in the Book of Esther Jean-Daniel Macchi -- Imagining the other in the construction of Judahite identity in Ezra-Nehemiah Tamara Cohn Eskenazi -- Phinehas and the other priests in Ben Sira and 1 Maccabees Tobias Funke -- Disability, identity, and otherness in Persian-period Israelite thought Rebecca Raphael -- The other others : a Qumran perspective on disability Anke Dorman.
Subject: "This volume sheds light on how particular constructions of the 'Other'contributed to an ongoing process of defining what 'Israel' or an 'Israelite'was or was supposed to be in literature taken to be authoritative in the late Persian and Early Hellenistic periods. It asks, who is an insider and who an outsider? Are boundaries permeable? Are there different ideas expressed within individual books? What about constructions of the (partial) 'Other' from inside, e.g., women, people whose body did not fit social constructions of normalness? It includes chapters dealing with theoretical issues and case studies, and addresses similar issues from the perspective of groups in the late Second Temple period so as to shed light on processes of continuity and discontinuity on these matters. Preliminary forms of five of the contributions were presented in Thessaloniki in 2011 in the research programme, 'Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the Persian and Hellenistic Period,' at the Annual Meeting of European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS)"--
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction BS1199.E84.I43 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001870720

"The present volume grew out of two sessions ... that took place at the 2011 meeting of the European Association of Biblical Scholars in Thessaloniki, Greece."--Introduction.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction Diana V. Edelman -- The other : sociological perspectives in a postcolonial age Jeremiah W. Cataldo -- Othering, selfing, 'boundarying' and 'cross-boundarying' as interwoven with socially shared memories : some observations Ehud Ben Zvi -- YHWH's othering of Israel Diana V. Edelman -- Categorical identities : 'ethnified otherness and sameness' : a tool for understanding boundary negotiation in the Pentateuch? K are Berge -- Natives and immigrants in the social imagination of the Holiness School Mark G. Brett -- Gender and identity in the Book of Numbers Claudia V. Camp -- Women on the edge Carey Walsh -- Ruth, a born-again Israelite? : one woman's journey through space and time Anne-Mareike Wetter -- Overcoming otherness in the Book of Ruth Robert L. Cohn -- Imagined and forgotten communities : othering in the story of Josiah's reform (2 Kings 23) Terje Stordalen -- Jonah and the other : a discourse on interpretative competence Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher -- Denial, deception, or force : how to deal with powerful others in the Book of Esther Jean-Daniel Macchi -- Imagining the other in the construction of Judahite identity in Ezra-Nehemiah Tamara Cohn Eskenazi -- Phinehas and the other priests in Ben Sira and 1 Maccabees Tobias Funke -- Disability, identity, and otherness in Persian-period Israelite thought Rebecca Raphael -- The other others : a Qumran perspective on disability Anke Dorman.

"This volume sheds light on how particular constructions of the 'Other'contributed to an ongoing process of defining what 'Israel' or an 'Israelite'was or was supposed to be in literature taken to be authoritative in the late Persian and Early Hellenistic periods. It asks, who is an insider and who an outsider? Are boundaries permeable? Are there different ideas expressed within individual books? What about constructions of the (partial) 'Other' from inside, e.g., women, people whose body did not fit social constructions of normalness? It includes chapters dealing with theoretical issues and case studies, and addresses similar issues from the perspective of groups in the late Second Temple period so as to shed light on processes of continuity and discontinuity on these matters. Preliminary forms of five of the contributions were presented in Thessaloniki in 2011 in the research programme, 'Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the Persian and Hellenistic Period,' at the Annual Meeting of European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS)"--

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