By Athalya Brenner, Frank H. Polak
This quantity brings jointly fourteen essays by way of Israeli, eu and American students honouring the designated contribution of Yairah Amit to the literary examine of the Hebrew Bible and to her public function, fostering particularly where of the Hebrew Bible in Israeli schooling. In religious study she has made major contributions to the learn of redactional and editorial job, which she has regularly seen from a rhetorical and literary perspective. those facets have been uniquely built in her paintings at the books of Judges and Chronicles, within which literary concerns continuously bring about the popularity of the ideology at the back of the redactor's paintings. one other key subject matter of hers has been overt and hidden polemics expressed or recommended by way of the narrative textual content. The reviews assembled within the current quantity care for the numerous elements of Amit's paintings, from the biblical and post-biblical right down to the mediaeval and the trendy interval. significant fields are the artwork of the redactor and inner-biblical polemics (Diana Edelman, Cynthia Edenburg, Nadav Na'aman, Meira Polliack, Dalit Rom-Shiloni), literary scrutiny (Ed Greenstein, Lillian Klein Abensohn, Frank Polak), ideology in social and spiritual contexts (Ehud Ben Zvi, Israel Knohl), and feminist and cultural reviews in a much wider experience (Athalya Brenner, Cheryl Exum, Yael Feldman, Shulamit Valler).
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Thus, we begin by reading about a well-established daughter in Judah, newly married and working for the success of her marriage (see Klein in this volume), outside the natural habitat—so to speak—of the ‘judges’; and we end our reading with two groups of daughters = young women, coerced this 6. It is not at all clear whether the woman was dead in the morning, or died thereafter. The text is somewhat opaque: ‘Toward morning the woman came back; and as it was growing light, she collapsed at the entrance of the man’s house where her husband was.
The Midrashic Imagination: Jewish Exegesis, Thought, and History (Albany: SUNY Press, 1993): 23-44. Japhet, S. 1997 The Ideology of Chronicles and Its Place in Biblical Thought (BEAJT, 9; Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2nd edn). N. 1992 ‘“There Was None Like Him”: Incomparability in the Books of Kings’, CBQ 54: 411-31. 1994 ‘Jehoshaphat’s Judiciary and the “Scroll of Yhwh’s Torah” ’, JBL 113: 59-80. 2001 ‘Rethinking the Relationship between Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History: The Case of Kings’, CBQ 63: 393-415.
1 Chron. 50 7. In Sum The present discussion has shown that (a) multiple, deeply interconnected, yet partial images of prophecy and prophets were generated by some common lines of thought, and (b) these images and their implications gave rise to additional, image-generating lines of thought that created new threads in an already dense tapestry. 52 In fact, one may say that some fundamentals of these concepts were adumbrated in this period, and particularly, but not only, in Deuteronomy and Chronicles.