Texts, contexts and readings in postexilic literature :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
explorations into historiography and identity negotiation in Hebrew Bible and related texts /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Louis Jonker.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 317 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe,
Volume Designation
53.
ISSN of Series
1611-4914 ;
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Introduction : reflecting on historiography and identity negotiation / Louis Jonker -- The writings 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 late 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.