Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah: Volume 2

✍ Scribed by Athalya Brenner-Idan; Gale A. Yee (editors)

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume brings together disparate views about biblical texts in the books of Samuel, Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah and examines their influence in the life of contemporary communities, demonstrating how today’s environments and disorders help readers to acquire new insights into such texts.
The contributing scholars hail from different continents – from East Asia to the United States to Europe to South Africa and Israel – and count themselves as members of various Jewish and Christian traditions or secularist ways of life. But, in spite of their differences in location and community membership, and perhaps in the spirit of the times (2020 and its global discontents), they share preoccupations with questions of ethics in politics and life, ‘proper’ death, violence and social exclusion or inclusion. This volume offers readers a better understanding of how politics and faith can be melded, both in ancient and contemporary contexts, to serve the interests of certain classes and societies, often at the expense of others.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
SERIES PREFACE
Bibliography
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
On the Books of Samuel
Intermezzo
On the Books of Kings
On the books of Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah
Afterword
Bibliography
Part I SAMUEL
‘DAVID HATES THE LAME AND THE BLIND’: TOWARDS AN INTER(CON)TEXTUAL READING OF 2 SAMUEL 5.6-9
1. Introduction
2. David’s Jerusalem Takeover: The Narrative Portrayal
3. New Historicism: Clarifying the Guideposts
4. A NH Rereading of the Jerusalem Takeover
5. Gleaning the Findings: Jebusites, the Proximate ‘Other’
6. The Pertinent Prospect of the Proximate ‘Other’: Revisiting the Yogi’s Outburst
Bibliography
‘WHO CAN SPEAK FOR ME?’ DAVID’S TEN CONCUBINES AND THE CASE FOR COMFORT WOMEN
The Unheard Voices of Comfort Women: ‘Are you ignoring us?’
The Unheard Voice of David’s Ten Concubines
Unifying Plot and Episodic Plot and Speaking for the Other
David’s Ten Concubines Re-examined
David’s Ten Concubines Reinterpreted
David’s Ten Concubines Re-Evaluated
Conclusion
Bibliography
THE POLITICS OF ANCIENT AND MODERN BURIAL: REVISITING THE CASE OF RIZPAH
1. Introduction: Burial in Present-Day Israel
2. Introduction: Rizpah
3. The Meaning of the Gibeonite Execution
4. Understanding Rizpah’s Response
5. A Need to Reinforce Divine Powers in the Following Passages
6. Conclusions
Bibliography
RIZPAH [RE]MEMBERED1
Introduction: On Secondary Burial and Rizpah Now
Prior to Rizpah: Several Textual and Other Issues
Rizpah: Preliminary Considerations
Rizpah Traced on the Internet: Classification of Materials
Concluding Remarks
Appendix 1: The Poems
Appendix 2: The Shriners, in Their Own Words
Bibliography
Intermezzo ON (HEROIC) DEATH BEYOND THE HEBREW BIBLE
COMMEMORATING FIRST WORLD WAR SOLDIERS AS MARTYRS
1. Introduction: Commemorating the Fallen of First World War as Martyrs
2. The German Military Cemeteries at Hooglede and Menen, Belgium
3. The Commemoration of Soldiers in the St Edmund King and Martyr Church in Dudley and All Saints’ Church at Huntingdon
4. Conclusion
Bibliography
Part II KINGS
THE TWO WOMEN IN SOLOMON’S JUDGEMENT: READING CROSS-TEXTUALLY WITH CHINESE SOURCES
Introduction
Juxtaposing the Different Chinese Versions
Cutting or Tugging?
Female Goblins and Prostitutes
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
THE GOLDEN AGE OF ELIJAH THE PROPHET AS CULTURE HERO IN ZIONIST EDUCATION
Introduction
Elijah the Prophet – The Herald of Zionist National Redemption
The Non-Biblical Elijah
Approaches to Teaching Elijah Stories in Bible Classes in the Pre-State Period
Teaching the Elijah Stories: A Social Perspective
The Importance Attributed to Elijah During the Mandate Period and the Early Years after the Establishment of the Israeli State
Elijah in the National Curricula for Israeli State Education, Written in 1954
Summary
Bibliography
SANCTIFIED ASSASSINATIONS – QUEEN ATHALIAH OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL’S PRIME MINISTER RABIN: A COMPARISON OF TWO POLITICAL-RELIGIOUS MURDERS
Introduction1
Athaliah: Status and Characteristics
Individual Figures and Groups Participating in Athaliah’s Story
The Murder of a Queen (2 Kgs 11.13-16; 2 Chron. 22.12-15)
The Assassination of a Prime Minister
Two Assassinations: A Comparison
Conclusion
Epilogue (February 2021)
Bibiography
Part III CHRONICLES-EZRA-NEHEMIAH
MANASSEH AS PERPETRATOR IN KING SAND CHRONICLES: A VIEW ON VULNERABILITY
Perpetrators in the Biblical Text
Manasseh as Perpetrator in 2 Kings 21.1-18 and 2 Chronicles 33.1-20
Manasseh and Vulnerability
Conclusion
Bibliography
PLUS ÇA CHANGE, PLUS C’EST LA MÊME CHOSE: RABBINIC INTERPRETATIONS OF DEUTERONOMY FROM EZRA-NEHEMIAH TO CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL’S CONVERSION CONTROVERSY
Editor’s Introduction
Overview
Intermarriage in Ezra and in Deuteronomy
Toward the Present Era: The Rulings of Moses Schreiber, the Hatam Sofer
A Detour: Back to the Second Temple Period
Back to the Modern Era: What to Do?
The Dispute: A Case Study
The Dispute: An Assessment
By Way of Conclusion
Bibliography
SUKKOT AS RESISTANCE IN THE DAYS OF NEHEMIAH
Which Text Was It That They Found Written in the Torah?
Sukkot in Second Temple Texts
Sukkot in Nehemiah
Sukkot in Nehemiah – A Holiday of Resistance
Lessons for Today?
Bibliography
READING THE BIBLE REPATRIATELY: EZRA-NEHEMIAH, A CASE STUDY
Introduction
Where We Have Been
Where We Can Go
Reading Repatriately
A Repatriate Reading of Ezra-Nehemiah
Conclusions: Still Far from Home
Bibliography
INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES
INDEX OF AUTHORS