History, memory, Hebrew scriptures : a Festschrift for Ehud Ben Zvi

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History, memory, Hebrew scriptures : a Festschrift for Ehud Ben Zvi

edited by Ian Douglas Wilson and Diana V. Edelman

Eisenbrauns, 2015

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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. Muller, 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.

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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

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