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Informationen zum Autor Susan Niditch is Samuel Green Professor of Religion at Amherst College. Her research and teaching interests include the study of ancient Israelite literature from the perspectives of the comparative and interdisciplinary fields of folklore and oral studies; biblical ethics with special interests in war, gender, and the body; the reception history of the Bible; and study of the rich symbolic media of biblical ritual texts. Recent publications include Judges: A Commentary (2008)and My Brother Esau Is a Hairy Man: Hair and Identity in Ancient Israel (2008). Her current project deals with personal religion and late biblical literature. Klappentext The Companion to Ancient Israel offers an innovative overview of ancient Israelite culture and history, richly informed by a variety of approaches and fields. Distinguished scholars provide original contributions that explore the tradition in all its complexity, multiplicity and diversity.* A methodologically sophisticated overview of ancient Israelite culture that provides insights into political and social history, culture, and methodology* Explores what we can say about the cultures and history of the people of Israel and Judah, but also investigates how we know what we know* Presents fresh insights, richly informed by a variety of approaches and fields* Delves into 'religion as lived,' an approach that asks about the everyday lives of ordinary people and the material cultures that they construct and experience* Each essay is an original contribution to the subject Zusammenfassung The Companion to Ancient Israel offers an innovative overview of ancient Israelite culture and history, richly informed by a variety of approaches and fields. Distinguished scholars provide original contributions that explore the tradition in all its complexity, multiplicity and diversity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xv Editor's Introduction 1 Part I Methodology: Questions, Concepts, Approaches, and Tools 9 A Contextualizing Israelite Culture 1 Archaeology: What It Can Teach Us 13 Elizabeth Bloch-Smith 2 Israel in Its Neighboring Context 28 Song-Mi Suzie Park 3 Ancient Egypt and Israel: History, Culture, and the Biblical Text 47 John R. Huddlestun 4 Text and Context in Biblical Studies: A Brief History of a Troubled Relationship 67 Steven Weitzman B Hebrew Bible and Tracking Israelite History and Culture 5 Folklore and Israelite Tradition: Appreciation and Application 87 Susan Niditch 6 The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: Sources, Compositional Layers, and Other Revisions 103 David M. Carr 7 Linguistics and the Dating of Biblical Literature 118 Ohad Cohen 8 Epigraphy: Writing Culture in the Iron Age Levant 131 Christopher A. Rollston Part II Political History 151 A Origins 9 The Emergence of Israel and Theories of Ethnogenesis 155 Avraham Faust B Monarchic Period 10 The Early Monarchy and the Stories of Saul, David, and Solomon 177 Brad E. Kelle 11 The Divided Monarchy 197 J. J. M. Roberts C Postmonarchic Period: In the Land and Diaspora 12 (Re)Defining "Israel": The Legacy of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods 215 Charles E. Carter 13 The Hellenistic Period 241 Matthew J. Goff Part III Themes in Israelite Culture 257 A God and Gods 14 The Gods of Israel in Comparative Ancient Near Eastern Context 261 Neal Walls 15 Monotheism and the Redefinition of Divinity in Ancient Israel 278 Mark S. Smith B Mediation: Gods and Humans 16 Priests and Ritual...
