Understanding Biblical Israel: A Reexamination of the Origins of MonotheismMercer University Press, 2002 - 338 oldal According to Stanley Rosenbaum, the Bible resembles what a family would retrieve after a tornado hits a trailer park -- some of the family's own possessions mixed with those of others, overlapping, contradicting, and disordered. Understanding Israelite History is a revolutionary attempt to fill in the many gaps left in the historical record. Rosenbaum begins by demonstrating that Israel's religion was not a clean, divinely inspired break with humanity's past, but derives from the long sweep of events that began when Homo sapiens first acquired language. Strata of earlier religions are still visible beneath the surface of Israelite monotheism. Early Israel was not "one man's family", however dysfunctional. It was a collection of individuals and groups, mainly outcasts or lower social elements, who coalesced into a nation and developed -- though they did not always follow -- a religion of ethical monotheism and principles of democratic government and social justice that still today move and inspire more than half the world's population. Like all religions, Israel's was shaped by the language, in this case Hebrew, in which it is expressed. Expressing monotheism in a language that is essentially dualistic conduced to the suppression of the female elements of earlier religions which had nurtured Israel's religion, and consequently, to a lack of appreciation for the part played by women in Israel's religious life. This skewed view of Israel's religion and its history that the Bible contains is a result of its having been collected, edited and in part written by Judeans, southern survivors, and heirs of David's kingdom who were moved to record it in the wake of the destruction ofJerusalem in 586 BCE. |
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... Israel itself , or complaints about unjustified treatment of Jews by surrounding peoples and attacks on Jewish sectarians such as the Karaites . 6 2Giovanni Garbini , History and Ideology in Ancient Israel ( London : SCM , 1988 ) 1-20 ...
... Israel , in 722 BCE . The North , which rejected Davidic dynastic kingship ... History History is not as important as it used to be . —Hans Barstad Writing ... Israel " be Written ?, European Seminar in Historical Methodology 1 , ed ...
... Israel's foun- ders and monarchs in a bad light ? That they did not do so is ... Israel was not " one man's family , " however dysfunctional . It emerged from a ... ancient Near East — more of which are continually being discovered— from ...
... History of Israel ' Be Written ? " 12 Though the answer was affirmative , it was hedged about with many qualifications . Since there is an ever - increasing amount of data available , it is next to impossible to keep up with the ...
... Israel's history in words , whether many or few . One can appreciate Walter ... Israel's emergence , note and contrast KJV and NRSV ) . Psalm 2 : 7's bar ... Ancient Israel ( Philadelphia : Fortress , 1967 ) 2n.3 , suggests that early ...
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7 Moses and Maybe Monotheism | 173 |
8 Who Was that Levi I Saw You with Last Night? | 178 |
9 An Evolving God? | 179 |
10 Et Tu Joshua? | 181 |
11 Whats in a name? | 183 |
12 System Collapse | 191 |
Of David and Jonathan Saul and Solomon | 195 |
2 Who are those guys? | 197 |
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4 Language and Speech | 56 |
5 Hebrew Dialect | 60 |
6 Words and the Word | 62 |
How to Read the Bible | 64 |
PreIsraelite Religion Pieces of Eight | 67 |
2 Ars gratia artis? | 68 |
3 Sensory Data | 70 |
4 What Ties Us Together | 73 |
5 You Are My Sunshine | 75 |
6 Once in a Blue Moon | 78 |
7 Who Was That Lady? | 81 |
8 Rocky Mountain High | 82 |
9 Fish Story | 83 |
10 Disasters and Lucky Stars | 85 |
11 Pieces of Eight | 88 |
12 The Bull from Everywhere the Serpent from Nowhere | 90 |
13 Religious Evolution | 93 |
14 A Twilight of the Gods | 96 |
Numbers and Numerology | 98 |
Numerical Ruminations | 101 |
3 Wait It Gets Worse | 104 |
Posttraumatic Hebrew Historiography | 107 |
2 Theological Triumphalism | 109 |
3 What Goes Around Comes Around | 113 |
4 Rationalizing the Destruction | 118 |
5 Whose Bible Is It Anyway? | 122 |
The View from Downstream | 125 |
An Etiological Appreciation | 129 |
3 The Rise of Cities | 134 |
4 Israels Selfunderstanding | 137 |
5 What Is Remembered | 138 |
6 Patriarchs | 140 |
7 Matriarchs | 146 |
8 Cousins in the Hood | 150 |
9Isaac | 151 |
10 There Are Wheels within Wheels Mr Ezekiel | 153 |
11 Double Trouble | 154 |
MosesExodusJoshua | 159 |
2 Moses Who? | 160 |
3 Egyptians Hyksos and Habiru | 164 |
4 The Exodus? | 165 |
5 Which Way Did They Go? | 167 |
6 Whither Sinai? | 172 |
3 Son of my pain | 201 |
4 Good King Saul | 203 |
5 Bedfellows Make Strange Politics | 207 |
Wise Yes Smart Maybe Not | 211 |
7 Uneasy Lies the Head That Would Wear the Crown | 213 |
8 Queen of Heartsand Minds? | 217 |
9 The Shrewdness of Solomon | 220 |
The Breakup of Their Camp | 225 |
2 The End of Empire | 227 |
3 Musical Thrones | 229 |
4 Athaliah Redivivus | 233 |
5 The War between the States | 240 |
6 The Last Days of Israel | 241 |
Elijah and the Rise of Israelite Prophecy | 245 |
2 A Prophetic Whos Who | 246 |
3 Gods Spokespersons | 250 |
4 Also in the Cast Were | 252 |
5 Prophetic Continuity | 253 |
6 My God Is YHvH | 255 |
7 Pure Yahwists | 256 |
8 Amos of Israel Social Critic | 259 |
9 Changing the Axis of Worship | 262 |
10 Prophecy in Judah | 263 |
11 Isaiah ben Amoz | 264 |
Judah Alone | 267 |
2 Under the Shadow of Assyria | 271 |
3 Living Next Door to a 400Pound Gorilla | 275 |
4 Hezekiahs Reforms | 279 |
5 Evil Manasseh | 280 |
6 Amon and Josiah | 283 |
7 A Book of the Law | 284 |
Jeremiahs Judah1 | 287 |
2 A Curse in Disguise? | 288 |
3 The Ark of the Covenant | 289 |
4 The Boy King | 290 |
5 Responding to Gods Call | 292 |
6 Grandpa Josiah and the Mrs Josiah | 294 |
7 On Backing the Wrong Horse | 296 |
8 The Last Days of Judean Independence | 299 |
9 Jeremiah in Egypt | 301 |
The Way Back into the Ground of Jewish Metaphysics | 303 |
2 Whos on first? | 305 |
3 A Star to Steer Her By | 307 |
4 Coping with Exile | 312 |
5 A Pearl of Great Price | 315 |
6 To What End? | 317 |
7 Coping with Diaspora | 320 |
8 Debates with Biblical Historians22 | 322 |
9 The Jewish Uncertainty Principle | 323 |
Bibliography | 327 |
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