Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 556 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783161511042
Series Statement:
Forschungen zum Alten Testament 63
Content:
Hauptbeschreibung The birth of the West stems from the rejection of tradition. All our evidence for this influence comes from the Axial period, 800-400 BCE. Baruch Halpern explores the impact of changing cosmologies and social relations on cultural change in that era, especially from Mesopotamia to Israel and Greece, but extending across the Mediterranean, not least to Egypt and Italy. In this volume he shows how an explosion of international commerce and exchange, which can be understood as a Renaissance, led to the redefinition of selfhood in various cultures and to Reformation. The process inevitably precipitated an Enlightenment. This has happened over and over in human history and in academic or cultural fields. It is the basis of modernization, or Westernization, wherever it occurs, and whatever form it takes.
Content:
Cover -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: The Rejection of Tradition -- Chapter 1. "Brisker Pipes than Poetry": The Development of Israelite Monotheism -- Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Chapter 2. The Baal (and the Asherah) in Seventh-Century Judah: Yhwh's Retainers Retired -- Chapter 3. Yhwh the Revolutionary: Reflections on the Rhetoric of Redistribution in the Social Context of Dawning Monotheism -- Contemporary Understandings of the Theology of the Hebrew Bible: Problems and Prospects -- Revolutionary Religious Rhetoric and the Powerful Elite -- Prophetic Critique as a Social-Control Mechanism -- Yhwh's Identity in Essentialist and Functional Views -- The Name Yhwh and History -- Chapter 4. The False Torah of Jeremiah 8 in the Context of Seventh Century BCE Pseudepigraphy: The First Documented Rejection of Tradition -- Part II: Cultural Transformations and Composition -- Chapter 5. The Resourceful Israelite Historian: The Song of Deborah and Israelite Historiography -- I. Some Issues and Implications -- II. The Problem and the Text -- III. Treatments of the Problem -- IV. Conclusions, Implications -- Chapter 6. Doctrine by Misadventure: Between the Israelite Source and the Biblical Historian -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Chapter 7. Sacred History and Ideology: Chronicles' Thematic Structure: Indications of an Earlier Source -- Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Chapter 8. The Editions of Kings in the 7th-6th Centuries BCE -- Introduction -- I -- II.i -- II.ii -- II.iii -- II.iv -- II.v -- III -- IV.i -- IV.ii -- IV.iii -- V.i -- V.ii -- V.iii -- VI.i -- VI.ii -- VI.iii -- VI.iv -- VI.v -- VII.i -- VII.ii -- VIII -- IX -- Chapter 9. Why Manasseh is Blamed for the Babylonian Exile: The Evolution of a Biblical Tradition -- I. The Question -- II. The Strategy of Explanation in Chronicles.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783161499029
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Halpern, Baruch, 1953 - From gods to God Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2009 ISBN 9783161499029
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Israel
;
Monotheismus
;
Bibel Altes Testament
;
Traditionsgeschichtliche Forschung
;
Alter Orient
;
Kosmologie
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 800 v. Chr.-400 v. Chr.
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Halpern, Baruch 1953-
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