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History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles
Equinox Publishing Ltd 2006; US$ 28.45The cumulative weight of these studies leads to a new understanding of the "Book of Chronicles", its theology, historiographical approach and the way in which the book serves to reshape the social memory of its intended readership, in accordance with its own multiple viewpoints and the knowledge of the past held by its community. more...
Signs of Jonah
Continuum International Publishing 2003; US$ 130.00In this new and refreshing approach to the story, Ben Zvi starts with the premise that Jonah, like most books, was written to be read. He therefore concentrates on intended and unintended readership(s) of Jonah and the network of messages that they were likely to derive through their reading and rereading. He starts with the historical and social matrix... more...
The Concept of Exile in Ancient Israel and its Historical Contexts
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 168.00The exile is a central turning point in Israel?s construction of the past as it is recorded in the Hebrew Bible. The latter?s concept/s of exile are involved, among others, in constructions of patriarchal narratives, the Egyptian sojourn and slavery that led to the Exodus, and the motif of ?the empty land? during the Babylonian period. Moreover, ancient... more...
Remembering and Forgetting in Early Second Temple Judah
Mohr Siebeck 2012; US$ 106.76Hauptbeschreibung This volume collects revised versions of essays from a 2011 workshop held in Munich on Remembering and Forgetting in Early Second Temple Judah . The authors of the essays address these issues from both general methodological perspectives and through case studies emerging out or associated with a wide range of texts from the prophetic... more...
The Production of Prophecy
Equinox Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 108.00The general image that emerges from the volume is that of biblical prophecy as a written phenomenon, though perhaps open to selected public readings. The relationship between prophetic and other authoritative written texts (e.g., the Book of Kings, the Deuteronomistic History) is explored, as well as the general social and ideological setting in which... more...
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