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Brothers and Aliens: The Role of the Other in Shaping National Identity in Biblical Historiography Dr. Cynthia Edenburg [email protected] Syllabus 1. What is Ethic Identity? Did ethnic identity exist before the Hellenistic Period? ,)2003 ,‫ מיהו יוני? אתניות וזהות ביוון העתיקה (האוניברסיטה המשודרת; משרד הביטחון‬,‫ עירד‬,‫מלכין‬ .93-85 ,69-60 ,15-11 Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives (London: Pluto Press, 2010), 1-22, 43-69, 70-89. Hutchinson, John and Anthony D. Smith, Ethnicity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 3-12. Spencer, Stephen, Race and Ethnicity: Culture, Identity and Representation (London and New York: Routledge, 2006), 45-47, 76-104. Sparks, Kenton L., Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Israel: Prolegomena to the Study of Ethnic Sentiments and their Expression in the Hebrew Bible (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1998), 1-6, 18-22. Miller, James C., “Ethnicitiy and the Hebrew Bible: Problems and Prospects,” Currents in Biblical Research 6 (2008): 170-213. 2. Who am I and what is my Name? Individual and Collective Identity in the Antiquity Biblical Texts: Gen 10:1-31, 11:27-29, 24:23-24, 25:20; Num 10:29; ; Judg 12:13; 1 Sam 16:18, 21:5; 2 Sam 17:25, 21:8, 23:26-29, 1 Kgs 14:21; Ruth 4:10 Wilson, Robert, R., Genealogy and History in the Biblical World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977), 18-45. Van Seters, John, Prologue to History. The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis, Louisville KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1992), Chapter 9 “The Table of Nations”, 174-193. 1 Sparks, Kenton L., Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Israel: Prolegomena to the Study of Ethnic Sentiments and their Expression in the Hebrew Bible (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1998), 52-57. Darshan, Guy, “The Biblical Account of the Post-Diluvian Generation (Gen. 9:20-10:32) in the Light of Greek Genealogical Literature,” Vetus Testamentum, 63 (2013): 515-535. 3. “Israel” in Historical Reality and Biblical Conception Primary sources: Mernepthah's victory stele; Shalmaneser III's monolith from Kurkh; Dan inscription Secondary literature Kletter, Raz, “Can a Proto-Israelite Please Stand Up? Notes on the Ethnicity of Iron Age Israel and Judah,” in‘ I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times’; Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday ,Vol. II (Aren M. Maeir and Pierre de Miroschedji, eds.; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006), 573-586. Sparks, Kenton L., Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Israel: Prolegomena to the Study of Ethnic Sentiments and their Expression in the Hebrew Bible (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1998), 95-108. Na’aman, Nadav, “The Israelite-Judahite Struggle for the Patrimony of Ancient Israel,” Biblica 91 (2010): 1-23. Na'aman, Nadav, “The Jacob Story and the Formation of Biblical Israel,” Tel Aviv 41 (2014): 95125. Frank, Nathan Dwight, “Recrafting Israel; Toward an Ethnotechnical Conception of the Nation,” Biblical Interpretation 23 (2015): 316-339. 4. Who is a Canaanite? History, Ideology and Transformation of Tradition Biblical Texts: Gen 10:15-18, 15:19-21, Exod 3:8, 23:23; Deut 7:1; Ezra 9:1; Neh 9:8; Lev 18:3, 24-25; Ezek 16:3, 15-21 Secondary Literature Ishida, Toomo, “The Structure and Historical Implications of the Lists of Pre-Israelite Nations,” Biblica 60 (1979): 461-490. 2 Levin, Christoph, “Israel and Canaan: the Origins of a Fictitious Antagonism,” in Re-Reading the Scriptures; Essays on the Literary History of the Old Testament (Christoph Levin; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013), 143-163. Na’aman, Nadav, “The Conquest of Canaan in the Book of Joshua and in History,” in Nadav Na’aman, Canaan in the Second Millennium B.C.E. (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2005), 330-44 (317-92). --------------. “The Canaanites and their Land,” in Nadav Na’aman, Canaan in the Second Millennium B.C.E. (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2005), 110-33. Van Seters, John, “The Terms ‘Amorite’ and ‘Hittite’ in the Old Testament,” in Changing Perspectives I, Studies in the History, Literature and Religion of Biblical Israel, (Copenhagen International Seminar; London and Oakville: Equinox, 2011), 55-71. Christoph Uehlinger, “The ‘Canaanites’ and other ‘pre-Israelite’ peoples in Story and History (parts I and II), Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 46 (1999): 546-578, 47 (2000): 173-198. 5. “Put them to the Ban so they will not teach you their ways”: Herem Ideology – Who was its Target? Primary Sources: Mesha Stele Biblical Texts: Exod 23:20-33, 34:10-16; Deut 7:1-6, 20:10-18; Judg 2:1-5; Josh 8. Secondary Literature: Edenburg, Cynthia, “From Covenant to Connubium: Persian Period Developments in the Perception of Covenant in the Deuteronomistic History,” in Covenant in the Persian Period (G. Knoppers and R. Bautsch eds.; Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2015), 113-32. Edenburg, Cynthia, “Paradigm, Illustrative Narrative or Midrash: the Case of Josh 7-8 and Deuteromic/istic Law,” in The Reception of Biblical War Legislation in Narrative Contexts: Studies in Law and Narrative (C. Berner and H. Samuel, eds.; Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 460; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015), 123-37. Weinfeld, Moshe, “The Ban on the Canaanites in the Biblical Codes and its Historical Development,” in History and Traditions of Early Israel: Studies Presented to Eduard Nielsen. Ed. by André Lemaire and Benedikt Otzen (André Lemaire et al. eds.; VTSup 50; Leiden: Brill, 1993), 142-60. 3 Rofé, Alexander, “The Laws of Warfare in the Book of Deuteronomy: Their Origins, Intent and Positivity,” JSOT 32 (1985): 29-32 (23-44). 6. Between “Do not seek their well-being” and “He is your Brother”: The Ambivalent Attitude towards the Peoples of the Transjordan Primary Sources: Mesha Stele; Deir ‘Alla inscription Biblical Texts: Gen 19:38-30, 25:21-34, 27:34-40, 33:4-16; Num 22:2 – 24:25; Deut 2:3-29, 23:29; 2 Kgs 24:1-2; Jer 27:3-6, 40:11-14, Ezra and Nehemiah Secondary Literature: Weisman, Zeev, “Ethnology, Etiology, Genealogy, and Historiography in the Tale of Lot and his Daughters (Genesis 19:30-38),” in "Sha͑arei Talmon"; Studies in the Bible, Qumran, and the Ancient Near East Presented to Shemaryahu Talmon, (Emmanuel Tov, et al., eds.; Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns, 1992), 43*-52* [Hebrew]. Pakkala, Juha, Ezra the Scribe. The Development of Ezra 7-10 and Nehemia 8 (BZAW 347; Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2004), 111-17. Michael A. Fishbane, Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel (rev. ed.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), 114-29. Van Seters, John, “From Faithful Prophet to Villain: Observations on the Tradition History of the Balaam Story,” in A Biblical Itinerary. In Search of Method, Form and Content. Essays in Honor of George W. Coats, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series (E. Carpenter, ed.; JSOTSup 240; Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1997), 126-132. 7. Estrangement of the “Us” of Yesterday and Appropriation of the Past “They”: Tightening and Relaxing Identity Boundaries Biblical Texts: Josh 9, 2 Kgs 17:24-41; Ruth Secondary Literature: Edenburg, Cynthia, “Joshua 9 and Deuteronomy; an Intertextual Conundrum: the Chicken or the Egg?” in Deuteronomy in the Pentateuch, Hexateuch, and the Deuteronomistic History (eds. R. Person and K. Schmidt; Forschungen zum Alten Testament II/56; Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2012), 115-32. 4 Na'aman, Nadav, “The Sanctuary of the Gibeonites Revisited,” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 9 (2009): 101-124. Knoppers, Gary N., “Cutheans or Children of Jacob? The Issue of Samaritan Origins in 2 Kings 17,” in Reflection and Refraction, Studies in Biblical Historiography in Honour of A. Graeme Auld, Vetus Testamentum. Supplements (R. Rezetko, et al. eds.; VTSup 113; Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007), 223-239. Glover, Neil, “Your People, My People: an Exploration of Ethnicity in Ruth,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 33 (2009): 293-313. Wetter, Anne-Mareike. “Ruth - a Born-again Israelite? One Woman's Journey through Space and Time,” in Imagining the Other and Constructing Israelite Identity in the Early Second Temple Period (Ehud Ben Zvi and Diana Edelman, eds.; London: Bloomsbury, 2014), 144162. 8. Endogamy and Exogamy: Between Exclusion and Inclusion Biblical Texts: Gen 24:8-1, 25:1-4, 27:46 – 28:5, 38:1-30; 2 Sam 3:3; 1 Kgs 11:1-2, 14:21; 1 Chr 2-4; Ezra and Nehemiah Secondary Literature Rofe, Alexander, “An Enquiry into the Betrothal of Rebekah,” in Die Hebräische Bibel und ihre zweifache Nachgeschichte; Festschrift für Rolf Rendtorff (Erhard Blum, et al. eds.; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1990), 27-39. Gary N.,Knoppers, “Intermarriage, Social Complexity, and Ethnic Diversity in the Genealogy of Judah,” Journal of Biblical Literature 120 (2001): 15-30. Gary N. Knoppers, “Nehemiah and Sanballat: The Enemy Without or Within?” in Judah and the Judeans in the Fourth Century B.C.E. (Oded Lipschits, et al. eds.; Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2007), 305-331. Ehud Benzvi, “Renegotiating a Putative Utopian and the Stories of the Rejection of the Foreign Wives in Ezra-Nehemiah,” in Worlds that Could Not Be. Utopia in Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah (Steven J. Schweitzer and Frauke Uhlenbruch eds.; LHBOTS, 620; London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016), 105-28. Frevel, Christian and Benedikt J. Conczorowski, “Deepening the Water: First Steps to a Diachronic Approach on Intermarriages in the Hebrew Bible,” in Mixed Marriages; 5 Intermarriage and Group Identity in the Second Temple Period (ed. Christian Frevel; New York: T. & T. Clark, 2011), 15-45. Southwood, Katherine, Ethnicity and the Mixed Marriage Crisis in Ezra 9-10: an Anthropological Approach (New York : Oxford University Press, 2012), 125-61. 6