Exclusive Inclusivity Identity Conflicts between the Exiles and the People who Remained (6th-5th Centuries BCE).
Title:
Exclusive Inclusivity Identity Conflicts between the Exiles and the People who Remained (6th-5th Centuries BCE).
Author:
Rom-Shiloni, Dalit.
ISBN:
9780567122445
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Publication Information:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (337 pages).
Series:
The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies.
General Note:
Index of ReferencesIndex of Authors.
Contents:
Abbreviations; Preface; Chapter 1 -- INTRODUCTION; 1. Literature, Ideology, and Identity: "Babylonian Exilic Ideologies"; 2. Methodology: Sociological and Psychological Paradigms; 3. Definitions of Group Identity: Communal Beliefs and "Otherness"; 4. Exclusivity: The Consequence of "Otherness"; 5. Plan of the Current Study; Part I -- PERSIAN-PERIOD IDEOLOGIES OF EXCLUSIVITY (POST-538 TO FIFTH CENTURY B.C.E.); Chapter 2 -- EZRA-NEHEMIAH; 1. In-group Self-Definition: Arguments for Inclusivity Between the Babylonian Exiles and the Repatriates.
2. Defining the Out-group: The Strategy of Amalgamation3. Ezra 6:19-21: Incorporation-An Implicit Exclusionary Strategy; Chapter 3 -- ZECHARIAH (1-8) AND HAGGAI:THE RESTORATION PROPHETS; 1. Zechariah Son of Berechyahu Son of Iddo (Zechariah 1-8); 2. Haggai; Chapter 4 -- 'm h'rtz, cl sh'ryt, 'm h'rtz: RELATIVE DESIGNATIONS OF EXCLUSIVITY-CORE AND PERIPHERY; 1. Conceptions of a Remnant: Relative Perspectives of Core and Periphery; 2. 'm h'rtz vs. 'my h'rzwt: Further Differences Between the Prophetic Literature and the Historiography.
Chapter 5 -- DEUTERO-ISAIAH: FROM BABYLON TO JERUSALEM (ISAIAH 40-48, 49-66)1. "My city and My exiled people" (Isaiah 45:13): Arguments of Exclusivity in Isaiah 40-66; 2. Other Groups in Deutero-Isaiah's Jerusalem Chapters: Out-group Designations; 3. Conclusions; Part II -- NEO-BABYLONIAN EXCLUSIONARY STRATEGIES (EARLY SIXTH CENTURY TO CA. 520 B.C.E.); Chapter 6 -- EZEKIEL AND HIS BOOK:HOMOGENEITY OF EXILIC PERSPECTIVES; 1. Ezekiel's Restricted Exclusivity: The Jehoiachin Exiles; 2. Editorial Strands in Ezekiel: Inclusive Outlooks within Exclusive Substrata; 3. Conclusions.
Chapter 7 -- JEREMIAH AND HIS BOOK: TWO ANTAGONISTIC PERSPECTIVES1. Jeremiah: Between Jerusalem and Babylon; 2. Prophecies of Consolation in Judean and Babylonian Contexts: Jeremianic Prophecies, Secondary Layers, and Transforming Perspectives; 3. Conclusions; Chapter 8 -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; 1. From External Separation to Intergroup Division; 2. Continuity and Transformation within Babylonian Exilic Ideologies; 3. Inclusive Interests: Detecting Voices within the In-group; 4. Universalism and Exclusivity; 5. Conclusions: Traits of Continuity, Traits of Change; Bibliography.
Abstract:
The sixth and fifth centuries BCE were a time of constant re-identifications within Judean communities, both in exile and in the land; it was a time when Babylonian exilic ideologies captured a central position in Judean (Jewish) history and literature at the expense of silencing the voices of any other Judean communities. Proceeding from the later biblical evidence to the earlier, from the Persian period sources (Ezra-Nehemiah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Deutero-Isaiah) to the Neo-Babylonian prophecy of Ezekiel and Jeremiah, Exclusive Inclusivity explores the ideological transformations within th.
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