Storymaking, Textual Development, and Varying Cultic Centralizations

Chapter 1: The Unhewn Stones
1.1 Unevenness and the Origins of the Hebrew Bible: The Truth Is Stranger than Fiction
1.2 Proposed Contribution
1.3 Structure of the Book

Chapter 2: Narrative Historiography and Cultural/Community Memory
2.1 Ancient Israel, Biblical Israel, and the View from Somewhere
2.2 Ricoeur and Narrative Historiography
2.3 Assmann and Cultural Memory
2.4 Fleming: Israel in Judah's Narratives
2.5 Conclusion

Chapter 3: Models of Textual Development: Survey and Assessment
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Recent Challenges to the "Growth Model"
3.3 Empirical Studies and Test Cases
3.4 Conclusion: "Storymakers" and Intention

Chapter 4: Northern Israel, Disputed Cultural Memory, and the Politics of Centralization
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Studies on Northern Israel and Benjamin
4.3 Related Concepts of Political Economy: Selectorate and Heresthetic
4.4 Applied to Current Biblical Scholarship
4.5 Evaluation

Chapter 5: Interim Assessment
Chapter 6: Cultic Sites in the Babylonian and Persian Periods: Potential and Actual Competitors to Jerusalem
6.1 Scope
6.2 Outside Yehud
6.3 Within Yehud
6.4 Evaluation

Chapter 7: Centralization and Anachronism in the Laws and Narratives of the Pentateuch
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Wherever I Cause My Name to Be Remembered: Traces of Pre-Deuteronomic Non-Centralization
7.3 Gathering Unhewn Stones: The Sites of Abraham and the Patriarchs
7.4 Conclusions

Chapter 8: Next Layer Down: All Roads Lead to Jerusalem in the DtrH
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Tent of Meeting at Shiloh: Joshua 18 through 1 Samuel 4
8.3 From Samuel's Circuit to David's Tent: 1 Samuel 4 through 2 Samuel 6
8.4 Dual or Non-Centralization? Ark-Tent and the Tent of Meeting
through Solomon's Temple (2 Samuel 6 through 1 Kings 8)
8.5 Conclusion

Chapter 9: Bethel, Community Memory, and the (Non-)Erasure of "Decentralized" History in Kings and Beyond
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Construal of Bethel and Northern Sites in Hosea and Amos
9.3 Portraits of Bethel and Non-centralization in Kings
9.4 The Chronicler's Reconstrual of Northern Sites, Deuteronomism, and Pre-Deuteronomistic Elements
9.5 Bethel in Pre-Dtr, Dtr, and Post-Dtr Texts: A Preliminary Conclusion

Chapter 10: Centralization and the Framing Conclusions of Joshua and Judges
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Judges 17-21
10.3 The Ending of Joshua: Priestly Completion of a Hexateuch, or Deuteronomistic Seam?
10.4 Transjordan "Shrine" in Joshua 22: Narrative Analysis
10.5 Shechem in Joshua 24
10.6 Summary: Burial of Northern Sites at the Seams of "Books" and of Collections

Chapter 11: Conclusions: Round Stones Forming a Square Altar
11.1 Danite Shrine Aetiology: A Thought Experiment
11.2 Summary of Key Theses
11.3 Synthesis: Heresthetic to Achieve Elite and Popular Support for Judah's Bible
11.4 Implications for Further Study
11.5 Epilogue: Modern Discomfort with "Unhewn Stones"