The Authors of the Deuteronomistic History

The Authors of the Deuteronomistic History
Author: Brian Neil Peterson
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1451487460

Peterson engages the identities and provenances of the authors of the various “editions” of the Deteronomistic History. Peterson asks where we might locate a figure with both motive and opportunity to draw up a proto-narrative including elements of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and the first part of 1 Kings. Peterson identifies a particular candidate in the time of David qualified to write the first edition. He then identifies the particular circle of custodians of the Deuteronomistic narrative and supplies successive redactions down to the time of Jeremiah.

The Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology

The Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology
Author: Sandra L. Richter
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110899353

This monograph is a comparative, socio-linguistic reassessment of the Deuteronomic idiom, leshakken shemo sham, and its synonymous biblical reflexes in the Deuteronomistic History, lashum shemo sham, and lihyot shemo sham. These particular formulae have long been understood as evidence of the Name Theology - the evolution in Israelite religion toward a more abstracted mode of divine presence in the temple. Utilizing epigraphic material gathered from Mesopotamian and Levantine contexts, this study demonstrates that leshakken shemo sham and lashum shemo sham are loan-adaptations of Akkadian shuma shakanu, an idiom common to the royal monumental tradition of Mesopotamia. The resulting retranslation and reinterpretation of the biblical idiom profoundly impacts the classic formulation of the Name Theology.

Oxford Bibliographies

Oxford Bibliographies
Author: Ilan Stavans
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release:
Genre: Hispanic Americans
ISBN: 9780199913701

"An emerging field of study that explores the Hispanic minority in the United States, Latino Studies is enriched by an interdisciplinary perspective. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, demographers, linguists, as well as religion, ethnicity, and culture scholars, among others, bring a varied, multifaceted approach to the understanding of a people whose roots are all over the Americas and whose permanent home is north of the Rio Grande. Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies offers an authoritative, trustworthy, and up-to-date intellectual map to this ever-changing discipline."--Editorial page.

The Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles

The Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles
Author: Raymond F. Person
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1589835174

This volume reexamines and reconstructs the relationship between the Deuteronomistic History and the book of Chronicles, building on recent developments such as the Persian -period dating of the Deuteronomistic History, the contribution of oral traditional studies to understanding the production of biblical texts, and the reassessment of Standard Biblical Hebrew and Late Biblical Hebrew. These new perspectives challenge widely held understandings of the relationship between the two scribal works and strongly suggest that they were competing historiographies during the Persian period that nevertheless descended from a common source. This new reconstruction leads to new readings of the literature.

The So-Called Deuteronomistic History

The So-Called Deuteronomistic History
Author: Thomas Romer
Publisher: T&T Clark
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2007-07-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

A thorough and detailed analysis of the Deuternomistic History and its influence on the Second Temple period.

Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic School

Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic School
Author: Moshe Weinfeld
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1992
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780931464409

By means of a threefold approach--typological analysis of literary forms, investigation of religious ideology, and study of didactic aims and methods--Weinfeld shows that the deuteronomic composition was the creation of scribal circles who began their work some time prior to the reign of Josiah and were still at work after the fall of Judah. Includes a 46-page detailed appendix on deuteronomic phraseology. This volume is a reprint of the 1972 Oxford edition.

Israelite Prophecy and the Deuteronomistic History

Israelite Prophecy and the Deuteronomistic History
Author: Mignon R. Jacobs
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2013-10-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1589837509

This collection of essays examines the relationship of prophecy to the Deuteronomistic History (Deuteronomy–2 Kings), including the historical reality of prophecy that stands behind the text and the portrayal of prophecy within the literature itself. The contributors use a number of perspectives to explore the varieties of intermediation and the cultic setting of prophecy in the ancient Near East; the portrayal of prophecy in pentateuchal traditions, pre-Deuteronomistic sources, and other Near Eastern literature; the diverse perspectives reflected within the Deuteronomistic History; and the possible Persian period setting for the final form of the Deuteronomistic History. Together the collection represents the current state of an important, ongoing discussion. The contributors are Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana Edelman, Mignon R. Jacobs, Mark Leuchter, Martti Nissinen, Mark O’Brien, Raymond F. Person Jr., Thomas C. Römer, Marvin A. Sweeney, and Rannfrid Thelle.