Ethnicity and identity in ancient Israel : prolegomena to the study of ethnic sentiments and their expression in the Hebrew Bible /
From the introduction:"When we speak of ethnicity, we bring into view a particular kind of sentiment about group identity wherein groups of individuals view themselves as being alike by virtue of their common ancestry. It is something of a truism to point out that ethnicity has played an import...
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Eisenbrauns,
1998
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Israel's ethnic identity: issues and problems
- the role of ethnicity studies
- 2. Ethnicity and identity in Israel's ancient context
- ethnicity and identity in Neo-Assyria
- ethnicity and identity in Archaic and classical Greece
- ethnicity and identity in Egypt
- 3. Merneptah's Stele and Deborah's song
- Israelite identity and the Merneptah Stele
- the song of Deborah (Judges 5)
- 4. Ethnicity and identity in the Assyrian period
- ethnicity and identity in Hosea
- ethnicity and identity in Amos
- ethnicity and identity in Isaiah of Jerusalem
- Summary: ethnicity and identity in the Assyrian period
- Excursus: core and periphery in the Assyrian period
- a proposal
- 5. Ethnicity and identity in the Judean monarchy
- Deuteronomy
- Excursus 1: the tribal list in the "blessing of Moses" (Deuteronomy 33)
- Excursus 2: the Deuteronomistic history
- Jeremiah
- Summary: ethnicity and identity in the Judean monarchy
- 6 . Ethnicity and identity in the exilic period
- Ezekiel
- Deutero-Isaiah
- Summary: ethnicity and identity in the exilic period and beyond
- 7. Summary and conclusions
- the history of Israelite ethnicity
- tribal organization in Ancient Israel
- the forefather traditions of Ancient Israel
- implications for ethnicity studies
- the task that remains
- theological reflections.
