This book suggests a regional paradigm for understanding the development of the traditions about Egypt and the exodus in the Hebrew Bible. It offers fresh readings of the golden calf stories in 1 Kgs 12:25-33 and Exod 32, the Balaam oracles in Num 22-24, and the Song of the Sea in Exod 15:1b-18 and from these paints a picture of the differing traditions about Egypt that circulated in Cisjordan Israel, Transjordan Israel, and Judah in the 8th century B.C.E. and earlier. In the north, an exodus from Egypt was celebrated in the Bethel calf cult as a journey of Israelites from Egypt to...
This book suggests a regional paradigm for understanding the development of the traditions about Egypt and the exodus in the Hebrew Bible. It offer...
Das Buch untersucht die Entstehungsgeschichte aller alttestamentlichen Texte, in denen von der "Lade Jahwes" oder "Bundeslade" die Rede ist, also insbesondere Exodus 25. 40; Numeri 10; Josua 3f. 6-8; 1. Samuel (1-3.) 4-6; 2. Samuel 6; 1. Koouml;nige 8 und Parallelen; Jeremia 3,16 und Psalm 132. Dabei wird versucht, sich nicht von vorgegebenen uuuml;bergeordneten Modellen leiten zu lassen, sondern diese von den Einzeltexten her zu prufen. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich, dass Anzahl und Umfang alter, vorexilischer Quellen erheblich geringer sind als bisher angenommen. Lediglich in 1. Samuel 4 finden...
Das Buch untersucht die Entstehungsgeschichte aller alttestamentlichen Texte, in denen von der "Lade Jahwes" oder "Bundeslade" die Rede ist, also insb...
This book, emphasizing Genesis 14 and Psalm 110, contributes to the history of composition of the patriarchal narratives in the book of Genesis and to the history of theology of the Second Temple period. Genesis 14 was added on a late stage and in two steps: first, Genesis 14* and later, the so-called Melchizedek episode (ME, vv. 18-20). Genesis 14 is the result of inner-biblical exegesis: both Genesis 14* and the later ME originated from scribal activity in which several earlier biblical texts have served as templates/literary building blocks. As for Genesis 14*, in particular...
This book, emphasizing Genesis 14 and Psalm 110, contributes to the history of composition of the patriarchal narratives in the book of Genesis and...
Die jungere archaologische und bibelwissenschaftliche Forschung stellt das traditionelle Bild der Geschichte des antiken Israel infrage. Der vorliegende Band fuhrt neueste Forschungsergebnisse beider Wissenschaftsdisziplinen zusammen und stellt die Frage nach der historischen Faktizitat oder literarischen Fiktionalitat des Davidisch-Salomonischen Groreichs (‛One Nation') und der Kultreformmanahme unter Josia (‛One Cult'). Die politischen und kulturellen Wechselbeziehungen innerhalb des Vorderen Orients werden am Beispiel der antiken Stadt Beth She'an/Scythopolis...
Die jungere archaologische und bibelwissenschaftliche Forschung stellt das traditionelle Bild der Geschichte des antiken Israel infrage. Der vor...
Efforts at interpreting Joban poetry have often been divided between philological and literary critics. This study brings these two critical modes together to offer an account of how Job 28 achieves meaning. The heart of the study consists of two major sections. The first is a reading of the poem with special attention to the conceptual background of its metaphors. Rather than a poetic account of mining technology, Job 28 is properly understood against the heroic deeds of ancient Mesopotamian kings described in Sumerian and Akkadian royal narratives, especially the Gilgamesh epic. The...
Efforts at interpreting Joban poetry have often been divided between philological and literary critics. This study brings these two critical modes ...
Gibt es Geschichtsschreibung im Alten Testament? Diese Frage hat die juuuml;ngere Exegese immer wieder beschaauml;ftigt. Meist war bei ihrer Beantwortung ausschlaggebend, in welchem Mae die in der Bibel geschilderten Ereignisse, Handlungen oder Prozesse als glaubwurdig bzw. wahrscheinlich eingestuft wurden. Die vorliegende Studie versucht, die Frage auf einem anderen Wege zu beantworten. Im Anschluss an die geschichtstheoretischen Arbeiten J. Ruuuml;sens bestimmt sie Historiographie als eine Sonderform vergangenheitsbezogenen Erzaauml;hlens, die sich durch das Bestreben auszeichnet, ihre...
Gibt es Geschichtsschreibung im Alten Testament? Diese Frage hat die juuuml;ngere Exegese immer wieder beschaauml;ftigt. Meist war bei ihrer Beantwort...
The monograph considers the relationships of ethical systems in the ancient Near East through a study of warfare in Judah, Israel and Assyria in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE. It argues that a common cosmological and ideological outlook generated similarities in ethical thinking. In all three societies, the mythological traditions surrounding creation reflect a strong connection between war, kingship and the establishment of order. Human kings' military activities are legitimated through their identification with this cosmic struggle against chaos, begun by the divine king at creation....
The monograph considers the relationships of ethical systems in the ancient Near East through a study of warfare in Judah, Israel and Assyria in the e...
The focus of this book is on early Jewish interpretations of the ambiguous relationship between God and ‛the angel of the Lord/God' in texts like Genesis 16, 22 and 31. Genesis 32 is included since it exhibits the same ambiguity and constitutes an inseparable part of the Jacob saga. The study is set in the wider context of the development of angelology and concepts of God in various forms of early Judaism. When identifying patterns of interpretation in Jewish texts, their chronological setting is less important than the nature of the biblical source texts. For example, a common...
The focus of this book is on early Jewish interpretations of the ambiguous relationship between God and ‛the angel of the Lord/God' in texts ...
In this book the author thoroughly examines the pentateuchal elohistic source, its structural unity and its relationship to the yahwistic source. His conclusions differ considerably from the accepted paradigm in the following ways: 1) In contrast to current scholarly opinions, it is assumed that E is the first basic pentateuchal source and that it predates J. J functions as E's first supplementary redactor - much as F. M. Cross, among others, conceived of P's redaction of J. 2) The name "Elohim" is used exclusively by the elohistic source even after Exodus 3 while the verses in Exodus 3...
In this book the author thoroughly examines the pentateuchal elohistic source, its structural unity and its relationship to the yahwistic source. H...
In der Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) erscheinen Arbeiten zu samtlichen Gebieten der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Im Zentrum steht die Hebraische Bibel, ihr Vor- und Nachleben im antiken Judentum sowie ihre vielfache Verzweigung in die benachbarten Kulturen der altorientalischen und hellenistisch-romischen Welt.
In der Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) erscheinen Arbeiten zu samtlichen Gebieten der alttest...
