Literary Construction of Identity in the Ancient World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Construction of Identity in the Ancient World write by Hanna Liss. This book was released on 2010-06-23. Literary Construction of Identity in the Ancient World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Encountering an ancient text not only as a historical source but also as a literary artifact entails an important paradigm shift, which in recent years has taken place in classical and Oriental philology. Biblical scholars, Egyptologists, and classical philologists have been pioneers in supplementing traditional historical-critical exegesis with more-literary approaches. This has led to a wealth of new insights. While the methodological consequences of this shift have been discussed within each discipline, until recently there has not been an attempt to discuss its validity and methodology on an interdisciplinary level. In 2006, the Faculty of Bible and Biblical Interpretation at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg, and the Faculty of Theology at the University of Heidelberg invited scholars from the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, Israel, and Germany to examine these issues. Under the title “Literary Fiction and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Literatures: Options and Limits of Modern Literary Approaches in the Exegesis of Ancient Texts,” experts in Egyptology, classical philology, ancient Near Eastern studies, biblical studies, Jewish studies, literary studies, and comparative religion came together to present current research and debate open questions. At this conference, each representative (from a total of 23 different disciplines) dealt with literary theory in regard to his or her area of research. The present volume organizes 17 of the resulting essays along 5 thematic lines that show how similar issues are dealt with in different disciplines: (1) Thinking of Ancient Texts as Literature, (2) The Identity of Authors and Readers, (3) Fiction and Fact, (4) Rereading Biblical Poetry, and (5) Modeling the Future by Reconstructing the Past.
The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism
The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism write by Erich S. Gruen. This book was released on 2016-09-12. The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature and history of early Judaism and the experience of the Jews in the Greco-Roman world. His many articles on this subject have, however, appeared mostly in conference volumes and Festschriften, and have therefore not had wide circulation. By putting them together in a single work, this will bring the essays to the attention of a much broader scholarly readership and make them more readily available to students in the fields of ancient history and early Judaism. The pieces are quite varied, but develop a number of connected and related themes: Jewish identity in the pagan world, the literary representations by Jews and pagans of one another, the interconnections of Hellenism and Judaism, and the Jewish experience under Hellenistic monarchies and the Roman empire.
The Construction of Exodus Identity in Ancient Israel
The Construction of Exodus Identity in Ancient Israel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Construction of Exodus Identity in Ancient Israel write by Linda M. Stargel. This book was released on 2018-05-22. The Construction of Exodus Identity in Ancient Israel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collective identity creates a sense of "us-ness" in people. It may be fleeting and situational or long-lasting and deeply ingrained. Competition, shared belief, tragedy, or a myriad of other factors may contribute to the formation of such group identity. Even people detached from one another by space, anonymity, or time, may find themselves in a context in which individual self-concept is replaced by a collective one. How is collective identity, particularly the long-lasting kind, created and maintained? Many literary and biblical studies have demonstrated that shared stories often lie at the heart of it. This book examines the most repeated story of the Hebrew Bible--the exodus story--to see how it may have functioned to construct and reinforce an enduring collective identity in ancient Israel. A tool based on the principles of the social identity approach is created and used to expose identity construction at a rhetorical level. The author shows that exodus stories are characterized by recognizable language and narrative structures that invite ongoing collective identification.
Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean
Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean write by Erich S. Gruen. This book was released on 2011. Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cultural identity in the classical world is explored from a variety of angles.
Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period
Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period write by Mika S. Pajunen. This book was released on 2017-07-24. Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When thinking about psalms and prayers in the Second Temple period, the Masoretic Psalter and its reception is often given priority because of modern academic or theological interests. This emphasis tends to skew our understanding of the corpus we call psalms and prayers and often dampens or mutes the lived context within which these texts were composed and used. This volume is comprised of a collection of articles that explore the diverse settings in which psalms and prayers were used and circulated in the late Second Temple period. The book includes essays by experts in the Hebrew bible, the Dead Sea scrolls, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and the New Testament, in which a wide variety of topics, approaches, and methods both old and new are utilized to explore the many functions of psalms and prayers in the late Second Temple period. Included in this volume are essays examining how psalms were read as prophecy, as history, as liturgy, and as literature. A variety methodologies are employed, and include the use of cognitive sciences and poetics, linguistic theory, psychology, redaction criticism, and literary theory.
