Imagining the Other and Constructing Israelite Identity in the Early Second Temple Period

by Ben Zvi, Ehud; Edelman, Diana V.; Mein, Andrew; Camp, Claudia V.

• ISBN13: 9780567667526
• ISBN10: 0567667529
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-03-24
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Author Biography

Ehud Ben Zvi is Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Diana V. Edelman is Research Associate, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Diana V. Edelman
Introduction
Jeremiah W. Cataldo
1. The Other: Sociological Perspectives in a Post-Colonial Age
Ehud Ben Zvi
2. 'Othering, Selfing, 'Boundarying' and 'Crossing-Boundarying' as Interwoven with Socially Shared Memories: Some Observations
Diana V. Edelman
3. YHWH's Othering of Israel
Kåre Berge
4. Categorical Identities: 'Ethnified Otherness and Sameness'–A Tool for Understanding Boundary Negotiation in the Pentateuch?
Mark G. Brett
5. Natives and Immigrants in the Social Imagination of the Holiness School
Claudia V. Camp
6. Gender and Identity in the Book of Numbers
Carey Walsh
7. Women on the Edge
Anne-Mareike Wetter
8. Ruth–A Born-Again Israelite? One Woman's Journey through Space and Time
Robert L. Cohn
9. Overcoming Otherness in the Book of Ruth
Terje Stordalen
10. Imagined and Forgotten Communities: Othering in the Story
of Josiah's Reform (2 Kings 23)
Suzanne Gilmayr-Bucher
11. Jonah and the Other: A Discourse on Interpretative Competence
Jean-Daniel Macchi
12. Denial, Deception or Force: How to Deal with Powerful Others in the Book of Esther
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
13. Imagining the Other in the Construction of Judahite Identity in Ezra-Nehemiah
Tobias Funke
14. Phinehas and the Other Priests in Ben Sira and 1 Maccabees
Rebecca Raphael
15. Disability, Identity, and Otherness in Persian Period Israelite Thought
Anke Dorman
16. The Other Others–A Qumran Perspective on Disability
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