The prolific study of prophets and prophetic literature has pro duced several influential scholarly paradigms over the nineteenth, twentieth, and now twenty-first centuries. This article calls ...attention to two of the paradigms that have shaped our scholarly mind-sets-literary criticism and redaction criticism-and asks what stands behind the different treatments of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, the prophets and their books, in these strands of biblical scholarship. The discussion raises challenges to these paradigms concerning three topics: prophets as personae (historical or literary), prophetic activity within the societies of Israel and Judah, and the literary evolution of prophetic literature.
The prolific study of prophets and prophetic literature has produced several influential scholarly paradigms over the nineteenth, twentieth, and now twenty-first centuries. This article calls ...attention to two of the paradigms that have shaped our scholarly mind-sets—literary criticism and redaction criticism—and asks what stands behind the different treatments of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, the prophets and their books, in these strands of biblical scholarship. The discussion raises challenges to these paradigms concerning three topics: prophets as personae (historical or literary), prophetic activity within the societies of Israel and Judah, and the literary evolution of prophetic literature.
The 22 essays in this new and comprehensive study explore how
notions of covenant, especially the Sinaitic covenant, flourished
during the Neo-Babylonian, Persian, and early Hellenistic periods.
...Following the upheaval of the Davidic monarchy, the temple's
destruction, the disenfranchisement of the Jerusalem priesthood,
the deportation of Judeans to other lands, the struggles of Judeans
who remained in the land, and the limited returns of some Judean
groups from exile, the covenant motif proved to be an increasingly
influential symbol in Judean intellectual life. The contributors to
this volume, drawn from many different countries including Canada,
Germany, Israel, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States,
document how Judean writers working within historiographic,
Levitical, prophetic, priestly, and sapiential circles creatively
reworked older notions of covenant to invent a new way of
understanding this idea. These writers examine how new conceptions
of the covenant made between YHWH and Israel at Mt. Sinai play a
significant role in the process of early Jewish identity formation.
Others focus on how transformations in the Abrahamic, Davidic, and
Priestly covenants responded to cultural changes within Judean
society, both in the homeland and in the diaspora. Cumulatively,
the studies of biblical writings, from Genesis to Chronicles,
demonstrate how Jewish literature in this period developed a
striking diversity of ideas related to covenantal themes.
This article traces two significant issues in the polemic among prophets in the Book of Jeremiah: the role of theology in their struggle with political events and the polemics in the effort to ...establish authority. It is argued, first, that there are significant theological distinctions between the prophets on the concept of war and on the roles played by God and by humans in victory and in defeat. Second, the struggle over their sources of authority motivated a genuine transformation within prophetic activity (oral and written) that seems to have occurred by the late seventh and early sixth century BCE.
The publication of the Al-Yahūdu Documents (2014) has been rightly celebrated worldwide by scholars of various fields of interest. The present paper focuses on four issues, as seen from the viewpoint ...of a Hebrew Bible scholar: The first concerns the Neo-Babylonian evidence; the second touches on the question of core and periphery; and the third looks at challenges presented by these materials to ideas about the acculturation of the exiles. Finally, the study raises the broader issue of the untold stories we hear by "listening" to this epigraphic data together with or over against the Hebrew Bible compositions by the Babylonian exiles.
Hebrew Bible Theology Rom-Shiloni, Dalit
The Journal of religion,
04/2016, Letnik:
96, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
In a series of studies, Marvin A. Sweeney has elaborated on the fundamental differences between the Old Testament (OT) corpus and the Tanakh, differences that go much beyond the questions of the ...distinct order of the books or the larger number of writings in the OT. Rather, to Sweeney, these differences comprise the distinction between the conceptions of canon inherent in each corpus: The Christian conception of the OT and New Testament (NT) operates by "a linear principle," in that it builds toward "the revelation of Christ as the culmination of human history"; in comparison, "a cyclical pattern" characterizes the Tanakh, which in Sweeney's view is structured according to "the ideal Jewish life, the disruption of Jewish life, and the restoration of that ideal." Without entering here upon the content of this cyclical pattern, the essential point is that Sweeney, like many other scholars (Jewish and Christian), felt that the Hebrew Bible is self-contained, and closed within itself, whereas the Christian OT canon requires the notion of linear progression to the NT. Here, Rom-Shiloni talks about the Hebrew Bible Theology.
This paper proceeds in three stages, and sets three goals. First, through the careful study of one prose passage in Jeremiah (11:1-14), I aim to complicate our sometimes simplistic perception of the ...use of Deuteronomic expressions in Jeremiah. One crucial phrase clearly draws on Priestly style and covenant conceptions, and is repeated in another four prose prophecies within the book (Jer 7:21-28 22; 11:1-14 4, 7; 31:31-34 32; 34:8-22 13). Thus, the second goal of this paper is to consider this (Priestly) phrase's contribution to Jeremiah's conception of covenant. Third, the proximity of both Deuteronomic and Priestly pentateuchal materials in a single prophetic context moves us beyond questions of authorship to literary strategies of allusion to and exegesis of both Deuteronomic and Priestly pentateuchal materials within the prophecy. The tendency within the book to harmonize diverse pentateuchal traditions has farreaching implications for the study of both Jeremiah and the Pentateuch.
