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"A thematic survey of the various scenarios in the OT wherein silence, both divine and human, play a significant role, and an exploration of the latent theological meaning behind these varied situations"--

Silence in the Bible --- Silence --- Religious aspects --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Most of the essays in this volume stem from the special sessions of the Historiography Seminar of the Canadian Society for Biblical Studies, held in the late spring of 2007 (University of Saskatchewan). The papers in these focused sessions dealt with issues of self-identification, community identity, and ethnicity in Judahite and Yehudite historiography. The scholars present addressed a range of issues, such as the understanding, presentation, and delimitation of “Israel” in various biblical texts, the relationship of Israelites to Judahites in Judean historical writings, the definition of Israel over against other peoples, and the possible reasons why the ethnoreligious community (“Israel”) was the focus of Judahite/Yehudite historiography. Papers approached these matters from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary vantage points. For example, some pursued an inner-biblical perspective (pentateuchal sources/writings, Former Prophets, Latter Prophets, Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah), while others pursued a cross-cultural comparative perspective (ancient Near Eastern, ancient Greek and Hellenistic historiographies, Western and non-Western historiographic traditions). Still others attempted to relate the material remains to the question of community identity in northern Israel, monarchic Judah, and postmonarchic Yehud.

Ethnicity in the Bible --- Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- History --- Historiography --- Identity --- Bible. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 930.21 <33> --- 933.3 --- 933.3 Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: Tweede Tempelperiode--(538 v.Chr.-70 n.Chr.) --- Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: Tweede Tempelperiode--(538 v.Chr.-70 n.Chr.) --- 930.21 <33> Historiografie. Geschiedenis van de geschiedwetenschap--Oud-Palestina. Judea --- Historiografie. Geschiedenis van de geschiedwetenschap--Oud-Palestina. Judea --- Historiography. --- Ethnicity in the Bible. --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Identity. --- Criticism --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Palaia Diathēk

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The 22 essays in this new and comprehensive study explore how notions of covenant, especially the Sinaitic covenant, flourished during the Neo-Babylonian, Persian, and early Hellenistic periods. Following the upheaval of the Davidic monarchy, the temple’s destruction, the disenfranchisement of the Jerusalem priesthood, the deportation of Judeans to other lands, the struggles of Judeans who remained in the land, and the limited returns of some Judean groups from exile, the covenant motif proved to be an increasingly influential symbol in Judean intellectual life. The contributors to this volume, drawn from many different countries including Canada, Germany, Israel, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States, document how Judean writers working within historiographic, Levitical, prophetic, priestly, and sapiential circles creatively reworked older notions of covenant to invent a new way of understanding this idea. These writers examine how new conceptions of the covenant made between YHWH and Israel at Mt. Sinai play a significant role in the process of early Jewish identity formation. Others focus on how transformations in the Abrahamic, Davidic, and Priestly covenants responded to cultural changes within Judean society, both in the homeland and in the diaspora. Cumulatively, the studies of biblical writings, from Genesis to Chronicles, demonstrate how Jewish literature in this period developed a striking diversity of ideas related to covenantal themes.

Covenant theology --- Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Biblical teaching. --- History --- 933.23 --- 933.3 --- 222 --- 222.1 --- 222.2 --- 224 --- 223.7 --- 222.7 --- 933.3 Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: Tweede Tempelperiode--(538 v.Chr.-70 n.Chr.) --- Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: Tweede Tempelperiode--(538 v.Chr.-70 n.Chr.) --- 933.23 Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: ballingschap--(587-538 v.Chr.) --- Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: ballingschap--(587-538 v.Chr.) --- Biblical teaching --- History&delete& --- Historische boeken van het Oude Testament --- Octateuch. Heptateuch. Hexateuch. Pentateuch. Boeken van Mozes --- Genesis --- Profetische boeken van het Oude Testament --- Wijsheid. Wijsheid van Jesus Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) --- Kronieken. Ezra. Nehemia --- Jews in Babylonian captivity (598 - 515 B.C.) --- Babylonisches Exil --- Bund Gottes --- Jews. --- Jewish question --- Bund --- Theologie des Bundes --- Gottesbund --- Bundestheologie --- Heilsgeschichte --- Föderaltheologie --- Babylonische Gefangenschaft --- Exil --- Juden --- Israel --- Babylonien --- v597-v538 --- Föderaltheologie

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