Book Details
Orange Code:93037
Paperback:298 pages
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1. Israel and the Nomads of Ancient Palestine2. David: Messianic King or Mercenary Ruler?3. A Comparative Study of the Exilic Gap in Ancient Israelite, Messenian, and Zionist Collective Memory4. Are There Any Bridges Out There? How Wide Was the Conceptual Gap between the Deuteronomistic History and Chronicles?5. Characters in Stone: Royal Ideology and Yehudite Identity in the Behistun Inscription and the Book of Haggai6. The Diaspora in Zechariah 1–8 and Ezra–Nehemiah: The Role of History, Social Location, and Tradition in the Formulation of Identity7. Ethnicity, Genealogy, Geography, and Change: The Judean Communities of Babylon and Jerusalem in the Story of Ezra8. Ezra’s Mission and the Levites of Casiphia9. Textual Identities in the Books of Chronicles: The Case of Jehoram’s History10. Reading and Rereading Josiah: The Chronicler’s Representation of Josiah for the Postexilic Community11. Identity and Empire, Reality and Hope in the Chronicler’s Perspective