History, Memory, Hebrew Scriptures
A Festschrift for Ehud Ben Zvi
Will be published approx. on 11. November 2015
Book
Hardback
488 pages
978-1-57506-391-1 (ISBN)
Description
Ehud Ben Zvi is one of the foremost scholars in the field of Hebrew Bible today. He has had a global impact both as a researcher and as a teacher, and he continues to create cutting-edge research that is helping to shape the future of the field. This volume marks his upcoming retirement from the University of Alberta and honors him and his career as a scholar and educator. Thirty-one papers written by a select group of colleagues, including several former students and a former teacher, are presented under three sub-headings: History and Historiography; Prophecy and Prophetic Books; and Methods, Observations, (Re)Readings. These categories represent the wide-ranging interests of Ehud himself and include contributions on the Bible as social memory, for which he has been a leading advocate and theorist in the past decade.
Contributors include R. Albertz, Y. Amit, B. Becking, K. Berge, M. J. Boda, A. Brenner-Idan, P. R. Davies, D. V. Edelman, M. H. Floyd, S. Gilmayr-Bucher, L. L. Grabbe, P. Guillaume, L. Jonker, G. N. Knoppers, S. Kostamo, F. Landy, T. Langille, C. Levin, J. R. Linville, W. Morrow, C. Nihan, S. B. Noegel, J. Nogalski, R. Mueller, N. Na?aman, R. Nelson, F. Polak, K. Ristau, P. J. Sabo, C. Walsh, and I. D. Wilson. Readers, regardless of their areas of specialization, will find many stimulating and thought-provoking contributions in the collection, which is fitting, given the boundary-pushing work of the honoree.
Contributors include R. Albertz, Y. Amit, B. Becking, K. Berge, M. J. Boda, A. Brenner-Idan, P. R. Davies, D. V. Edelman, M. H. Floyd, S. Gilmayr-Bucher, L. L. Grabbe, P. Guillaume, L. Jonker, G. N. Knoppers, S. Kostamo, F. Landy, T. Langille, C. Levin, J. R. Linville, W. Morrow, C. Nihan, S. B. Noegel, J. Nogalski, R. Mueller, N. Na?aman, R. Nelson, F. Polak, K. Ristau, P. J. Sabo, C. Walsh, and I. D. Wilson. Readers, regardless of their areas of specialization, will find many stimulating and thought-provoking contributions in the collection, which is fitting, given the boundary-pushing work of the honoree.
Reviews / Votes
"The book serves as a useful reference and develops many of Ben Zvi's earlier textual observations. It will undoubtedly find a well-deserved place on the library shelves of many students as well as biblical scholars."-Jeffrey P. Hudon Review of Biblical Literature
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pennsylvania State University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57506-391-1 (9781575063911)
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Content
Part 1: History and Historiography
Shechem in Deuteronomy: A Seemingly Hidden Polemic Yairah Amit
Menachem's Massacre of Tiphsah: At the Crossroads of Grammar and Memory (2 Kings 15:16) Bob Becking
Male Royals and Their Ethnically Foreign Mothers: The Implications for Textual Politics Athalya Brenner-Idan
Images of Tranquility in the Book of Judges Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher
When the Foreign Monarch Speaks about the Israelite Tabernacle Gary N. Knoppers
Putting the Neighbors in Their Place: Memory and Mindscape in Deuteronomy 2:10-12, 20-23 William Morrow
Righteous Kings, Evil Kings, and Israel's Non-Monarchic Identity: Different Voices on the Failure of Israelite Kingship in the Book of Kings Reinhard Mu?ller
A Request for Blessing and Prosperity in an Inscription from Samaria Nadav Na?aman
Solomon's Administrative Districts: A Scholarly Illusion Richard D. Nelson
Conceptions of the Past and Sociocultural Grounding in the Books of Samuel Frank H. Polak
"In the House of Judah, My Father's House": The Character of Joab in the Book of Chronicles Kenneth A. Ristau
Chronicles and Utopia: Likely Bedfellows? Ian Douglas Wilson
Part 2: Prophecy and Prophetic Books
When God's Voice Breaks Through: Shifts in Revelatory Rhetoric in Zechariah 1-8 Mark J. Boda
The Chronological Limits of Reshaping Social Memory in the Presence of Written Sources: The Case of Ezekiel in Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Yehud Philippe Guillaume
Who's Speaking? On Whose Behalf? The Book of Haggai from the Perspective of Identity Formation in the Persian Period Louis Jonker
Mind the Gap: Reading Isa 39:8-Isa 40:1 within Early Second Temple Judah Sonya K. Kostamo
The na?s?i?? and the Future of Royalty in Ezekiel Christophe Nihan
These Seventy Years: Intertextual Observations and Postulations on Jeremiah and the Twelve James Nogalski
The Metaprophetic God of Jonah Carey Walsh
Part 3: Methods, Observations, (Re)Readings
Some Sort of "Chronistic" Additions to the Torah? New Perspectives in the Formation of Exod 19-20 Rainer Albertz
Sites of Memory and the Presence of the Past in Ehud Ben Zvi's "Social Memory" Ka?re Berge
The Jerusalem Literary Circle Philip R. Davies
The Metaphor of Torah as a Life-Giving Well in the Book of Deuteronomy Diana V. Edelman
The Ritual of Reading and the Dissemination of Prophetic and Other Authoritative Texts in Second Temple Judaism Michael H. Floyd
History and the Nature of Cultural Memory: The Alamo and the "Masada Complex" Lester L. Grabbe
Between the Words I Write Francis Landy
Hybrids, Purification, and Multidirectional Memory in Ezra-Nehemiah Tim Langille
Is Ehud also among the Prophets? Prophecy in the Book of Judges Christoph Levin
Mythoprophetics: Some Thoughts James R. Linville
More Geminate Ballast and Clustering in Biblical Hebrew Scott B. Noegel
Blurred Boundaries in the Lot Story P. J. Sabo
Index of Authors
Index of Scripture
Index of Other Ancient Literature
Shechem in Deuteronomy: A Seemingly Hidden Polemic Yairah Amit
Menachem's Massacre of Tiphsah: At the Crossroads of Grammar and Memory (2 Kings 15:16) Bob Becking
Male Royals and Their Ethnically Foreign Mothers: The Implications for Textual Politics Athalya Brenner-Idan
Images of Tranquility in the Book of Judges Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher
When the Foreign Monarch Speaks about the Israelite Tabernacle Gary N. Knoppers
Putting the Neighbors in Their Place: Memory and Mindscape in Deuteronomy 2:10-12, 20-23 William Morrow
Righteous Kings, Evil Kings, and Israel's Non-Monarchic Identity: Different Voices on the Failure of Israelite Kingship in the Book of Kings Reinhard Mu?ller
A Request for Blessing and Prosperity in an Inscription from Samaria Nadav Na?aman
Solomon's Administrative Districts: A Scholarly Illusion Richard D. Nelson
Conceptions of the Past and Sociocultural Grounding in the Books of Samuel Frank H. Polak
"In the House of Judah, My Father's House": The Character of Joab in the Book of Chronicles Kenneth A. Ristau
Chronicles and Utopia: Likely Bedfellows? Ian Douglas Wilson
Part 2: Prophecy and Prophetic Books
When God's Voice Breaks Through: Shifts in Revelatory Rhetoric in Zechariah 1-8 Mark J. Boda
The Chronological Limits of Reshaping Social Memory in the Presence of Written Sources: The Case of Ezekiel in Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Yehud Philippe Guillaume
Who's Speaking? On Whose Behalf? The Book of Haggai from the Perspective of Identity Formation in the Persian Period Louis Jonker
Mind the Gap: Reading Isa 39:8-Isa 40:1 within Early Second Temple Judah Sonya K. Kostamo
The na?s?i?? and the Future of Royalty in Ezekiel Christophe Nihan
These Seventy Years: Intertextual Observations and Postulations on Jeremiah and the Twelve James Nogalski
The Metaprophetic God of Jonah Carey Walsh
Part 3: Methods, Observations, (Re)Readings
Some Sort of "Chronistic" Additions to the Torah? New Perspectives in the Formation of Exod 19-20 Rainer Albertz
Sites of Memory and the Presence of the Past in Ehud Ben Zvi's "Social Memory" Ka?re Berge
The Jerusalem Literary Circle Philip R. Davies
The Metaphor of Torah as a Life-Giving Well in the Book of Deuteronomy Diana V. Edelman
The Ritual of Reading and the Dissemination of Prophetic and Other Authoritative Texts in Second Temple Judaism Michael H. Floyd
History and the Nature of Cultural Memory: The Alamo and the "Masada Complex" Lester L. Grabbe
Between the Words I Write Francis Landy
Hybrids, Purification, and Multidirectional Memory in Ezra-Nehemiah Tim Langille
Is Ehud also among the Prophets? Prophecy in the Book of Judges Christoph Levin
Mythoprophetics: Some Thoughts James R. Linville
More Geminate Ballast and Clustering in Biblical Hebrew Scott B. Noegel
Blurred Boundaries in the Lot Story P. J. Sabo
Index of Authors
Index of Scripture
Index of Other Ancient Literature