Texts, Contexts and Readings in Postexilic Literature: Explorations Into Historiography and Identity Negotiation in Hebrew Bible and Related Texts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783161509759)

Periods of socio-historical change often prompt renewed interest in history-writing. Interest in the past is then driven by processes of identity negotiation which facilitate a new orientation in changed circumstances. The Hebrew Bible is an excellent example, containing historiographical writings from different socio-historical periods. Dramatic socio-political and socio-religious changes took place from the sixth to the fourth centuries B.C.E. in Ancient Israel. These changes prompted different processes of identity negotiation through historiographical literature. The authors of the essays collected here explore historiographical and related texts and their contexts in these tumultuous times in order to come to a better understanding of the dynamic relationship between ancient historiography and identity negotiation. They also investigate how this literature could be interpreted in contemporary contexts of socio-historical change. Contributors: Johann Cook, Izak Cornelius, Louis Jonker, Gary Knoppers, Oded Lipschits, Gerrie Snyman, Robert Vosloo, Josef Wieshofer, Ehud Ben Zvi

Author: Louis C. Jonker
ISBN-10: 3161509757
ISBN-13: 9783161509759
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2011
Pages: 317
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs