Full Description
In this volume scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations are gathered together to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light, focusing on issues of intertextuality. Samuel, Kings and Chronicles I sheds light from new perspectives on themes in these so-called historical books including Asian American and Chinese readings, issues of land, genealogy and maleness. The authors challenge us to consider how we deal with cultural distances between ourselves and these ancient writings - and between one another in the contemporary world.
These goal of these essays is de-centre the often homogeneous first-world orientation of much biblical scholarship and open to up new possibilities for discovery of meaning and method.
Contents
Series Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction - Athalya Brenner-Idan, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Tel Aviv University, Israel
Part One: On Relationships
A. Leading Female Figures in Kings and Chronicles and Their Family Connections
1. Hearing Tamar's voice - How the Margin Hears Differently: Contextual readings of 2 Samuel 13.1-22 - Charlene van der Walt, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
2. To Whom Do Jezebel's Remains Belong? Challenges for an 'Organic Exegete' Facing Contextual Readings of 2 Kings 9.30-37 - Fernando Candido da Silva, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
3. Coveting the Vineyard: An Asian American Reading of 1 Kings 21 - Gale A. Yee, Episcopal Divinity School, USA
4. Juridical Impotence in the Naboth Story in the Context of Kenya's New Land Laws - Gilbert Okuro Ojwang, Oakwood University, USA
5. Gendered Genealogies in Response to Fractured Pasts: Inquiring Processes of Othering in 1 Chronicles 1-9 from a German Perspective - Ingeborg Löwisch, University of Bern, Switzerland
B. The Medium Of En-dor
6. The Medium of En-dor and the Phenomenon of Divination in Twenty-First Century Israel - Ora Brison, University of Tel Aviv, Israel
7. The medium of En-dor Heard through the Medium of Music - Helen Leneman, Independent Scholar, USA
Part Two: On Issues
8. Reading the Psalms of 1 Chronicle 16. 8-36 in the Chinese and Biblical Contexts
Archie C.C Lee, Shandong University, China
9. Children in the Hebrew Bible and the Case of Samuel: From Personal Experience to Analysis - Naomi Steinberg, DePaul University, USA
10. Running in the Bible - Yael Shemesh, Bar Ilan University, Israel
11. Clothing, Adornment and Accoutrements as Cultural and Literary Signifiers in the 'Historical' Books - Heather McKay, Edge Hill University, UK
12. Male Royals and Their Ethnically Foreign Mothers: The Implications for Textual Politics, Athalya Brenner-Idan, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Tel Aviv University, Israel
Index of Scriptures
Index of Authors
