Full Description
This volume brings together disparate views about biblical texts in the books of Samuel, Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah and examines their influence in the life of contemporary communities, demonstrating how today's environments and disorders help readers to acquire new insights into such texts.
The contributing scholars hail from different continents - from East Asia to the United States to Europe to South Africa and Israel - and count themselves as members of various Jewish and Christian traditions or secularist ways of life. But, in spite of their differences in location and community membership, and perhaps in the spirit of the times (2020 and its global discontents), they share preoccupations with questions of ethics in politics and life, 'proper' death, violence and social exclusion or inclusion. This volume offers readers a better understanding of how politics and faith can be melded, both in ancient and contemporary contexts, to serve the interests of certain classes and societies, often at the expense of others.
Contents
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction -- Athalya Brenner-Idan, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Samuel
1. 'David Hates the Lame and the Blind': Towards an Inter(Con)Textual Reading of 2 Samuel 5.6-9* -- Dominic S. Irudayaraj, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy
2. Who Can Speak for me?' David's Ten Concubines and the Case for Comfort Women -- Hyun Ho Park, Grace United Methodist Church, USA
3. The Politics of Ancient and Modern Burial: Revisiting the Case of Rizpah -- Talia Sutskover, Tel Aviv University, Israel
4. Rizpah [Re] Membered -- Athalya Brenner-Idan, Tel Aviv University, USA
Intermezzo: On [Heroic] Death beyond the Hebrew Bible
5. Commemorating World War I Soldiers as Martyrs -- Jan Willem van Henten, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Kings
6. The Two Women in Solomon's Judgement: A Cross-Textual Reading with Chinese Sources -- Wei Huang, Shanghai University, China
7. The Golden Age of Elijah the Prophet as Culture Hero in Zionist Education -- Tamar Lammfromm, David Yellin College, Israel
8. Sanctified Assassinations--Queen Athaliah of Judah and Israel's Prime Minister Rabin: A Comparison of Two Religio-Political Murders -- Ora Brison, Independent Scholar, Israel
Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah
9. Manasseh as Perpetrator in Kings and Chronicles: a View on Vulnerability -- Gerrie F. Snyman, University of South Africa, South Africa
10. Plus Ca Change, Plus C'est Le Meme Chose: Rabbinic Interpretations of Deuteronomy from Ezra-Nehemiah to Contemporary Israel's Conversion Controversy -- Atar Hadari, Liverpool Hope University, UK
11. Sukkot as Resistance in the Days of Nehemiah -- Lisbeth S. Fried, University of Michigan, USA
12. Reading the Bible Repatriately: Ezra-Nehemiah, A Case Study -- Roger Nam, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
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