Archival Historiography in Jewish Antiquity
«Hasler gives her readers much to think about ... I am certain she has opened a completely new chapter in the history of the research on the books of Ezra and Nehemiah.»
Bob Becking, Biblica
The question of how the Bible received its unusual form has been a question addressed by scholars since critical study of the text began. Early attention focused on the Pentateuch and the Primary History. Les mer
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sense of Ezra and Nehemiah's unusual format and place in the Bible. Adapting the symbolic quality of ancient Near Eastern archives to their own purposes, the writers of these books found archiving an expression of religious and social power in a colonized context. Using the book of Esther as a comparative
example, Carlson Hasler addresses literary disruption, a form unpalatable to modern readers, as an expected element of archival historiography. This book argues that archiving within the experience of trauma is more than sophisticated history writing, and in fact served to facilitate Judean recovery after the losses of exile.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780190918729
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«Hasler gives her readers much to think about ... I am certain she has opened a completely new chapter in the history of the research on the books of Ezra and Nehemiah.»
Bob Becking, Biblica