Re-imagining identity through national narratives: The representational ethics of Israelites and Other(s) in Jubilees and Josephus’s Judean Antiquities

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Carrie Cifers
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This article brings the literary treasures of ancient Judea into conversation with the interdisciplinary fields of Narrative Ethics and Socio-Narratology while considering Jubilees and Josephus’s Judean Antiquities as participating in the etic genre of national history. This article interrogates the work that each of these narratives do to shape the collective identity of Hellenistic and Roman era Judeans and to shape Judean perceptions of their cultural Others. By analyzing Jubilees 30 and Antiquities 1.337–341 dialogically, this paper claims that Josephus’s re-narrativization of Judean history serves as a corrective to the Israelite representation in Jubilees. It is argued that representations in Jubilees promoted an impermeable boundary between Judeans and Others, with violence as a legitimized and valorized ethic of cross-cultural engagement, whereas Antiquities re-imagined a new future of more permeable boundaries and diplomatic negotiation for first-century C.E. Judeans by re-imagining their past through narrative. Dangerous representations of cultural Others, however, remained a part of the story.
通过民族叙事重新想象身份:朱比利和约瑟夫斯的犹太古物中的以色列人和其他人的具象伦理
本文将古代犹太的文学瑰宝与叙事伦理学和社会叙事学的跨学科领域进行了对话,同时将朱比利和约瑟夫斯的犹太古物视为国家历史的一种类型。这篇文章质疑了这些叙事中的每一个都在塑造希腊化和罗马时代犹太人的集体身份,以及塑造犹太人对其文化他人的看法方面所做的工作。本文通过对《朱比利30》和《古物1.337-341》的对话分析,认为约瑟夫斯对犹太历史的重新叙述是对以色列在《朱比利》中表现的一种纠正。有人认为,《朱比利》中的表现促进了犹太教徒和其他人之间不可渗透的边界,暴力是一种合法化和价值化的跨文化参与伦理,而《古物》则通过叙事重新想象他们的过去,为一世纪的C.E.犹太教徒重新想象了一个更具渗透性的边界和外交谈判的新未来。然而,文化他人的危险表现仍然是故事的一部分。
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期刊介绍: The last twenty years have witnessed some remarkable achievements in the study of early Jewish literature. Given the ever-increasing number and availability of primary sources for these writings, specialists have been producing text-critical, historical, social scientific, and theological studies which, in turn, have fuelled a growing interest among scholars, students, religious leaders, and the wider public. The only English journal of its kind, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha was founded in 1987 to provide a much-needed forum for scholars to discuss and review most recent developments in this burgeoning field in the academy.
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