Shafer-Elliott, Cynthia, Kristin Joachimsen, Ehud Ben Zvi & Pauline A. Viviano (eds.). 2022. The Hunt for Ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of Diana V. Edelman. Sheffield: Equinox.
The Hunt for Ancient Israel celebrates the contribution of Diana V. Edelman to the field of biblical studies and celebrates her personally as researcher, teacher, mentor, colleague, and mastermind of new research paths and groups. It salutes her unconventional, constant thinking and rethinking outside the box, and her challenging of established consensuses. This volume includes essays addressing biblical themes and texts, archaeological fieldwork, historical method, social memory and reception history.
Table of Contents
Front Matter
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Cynthia Shafer-Elliott,Kristin Joachimsen,Ehud Ben Zvi,Pauline A. Viviano
Introduction
Introduction [+]1-9
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Chapter 1
The Covenant of Circumcision (Genesis 17) as an Identity Marker of Nascent Judaism [+]10-26
Thomas Römer
Chapter 2
Pain, Gain, or Both? Circumcision, Trauma, and (R)Emasculation in Post-Exlic Israel [+]27-49
Anne-Mareike Schol-Wetter
Chapter 3
Steinar Skarpnes
Chapter 4
The Joseph Story: Between a Family and a Polemical Story [+]69-92
Yairah Amit
Chapter 5
Shibboleth: Folklore and Redaction-History [+]93-104
Christoph Levin
Chapter 6
A Masterpiece of Early Hebrew Storytelling: The Seance at En-Dor (1 Samuel 28) [+]105-125
Reinhard Müller
Chapter 7
The Irrevocable Word of God (1 Kings 13:1–32) [+]126-136
Pauline A. Viviano
Chapter 8
The Pragmatic Challenge to Moses: Jeremiah 30:1-4 in Light of Deuteronomy [+]137-151
Benedetta Rossi
Chapter 9
Dating Haggai: Or Reframing the Context of a Prophetic Book [+]152-167
Bob Becking
Chapter 10
It’s All in the Lists! Building the Community through the Lists in the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah [+]168-194
Maria Häusl
Chapter 11
References to Josiah in the Chronicles’ Narrative [+]195-217
Lowell K. Handy
Chapter 12
Keys to the Past? Archaeological Correlates of Social and Cultural Memory from the Ancient Levant [+]218-232
Aren Maeir
Chapter 13
Putting One’s House in Order: Household Archaeology at Tell Halif, Israel [+]233-257
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
Chapter 14
David Hamidovic
Chapter 15
Kings Saul, David, and Arthur: On Writing a History of the ‘Dark Age’ [+]294-312
Lester L. Grabbe
Chapter 16
The Appearance of Hebrew Prose and the Fabric of History [+]313-335
Daniel Pioske
Chapter 17
If I Ever Forget You, Benjamin… [+]336-359
James Anderson,Philippe Guillaume
Chapter 18
“He Shall Accomplish My Desired Will”: The Yehudized Cyrus in the Book of Isaiah [+]360-382
Kristin Joachimsen
Chapter 19
Where a Shattered Visage Lies? Warrants for Authority in Persian Yehud [+]383-406
Jason Silverman
Chapter 20
The Production of Literature in Judean Military Communities in Egypt [+]407-435
Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley
Chapter 21
Praying History: Taking a Joyful Leap of Trust [+]436-454
Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher
Chapter 22
Cultural Memory, Identity, and the Past [+]455-475
Kåre Berge
Chapter 23
Ehud Ben Zvi
Chapter 24
Jorunn Okland
End Matter
List of Diana V. Edelman’s Publications [+]521-530
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Index of Authors [+]531-544
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Index of Ancient Textual Sources[+]545-571
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