{"title":"Monotheism And Violence: How To Handle A Dangerous Biblical Tradition","authors":"Rainer Albertz","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004175150.I-474.134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004175150.I-474.134","url":null,"abstract":"Since September the 11th, 2001, it has become obvious to everyone in the world that religiously motivated fanaticism and violence constitute a dangerous political threat to all human civilizations. According to the biblical tradition monotheism emerged in the very beginnings of Israel, when Yhwh revealed to Moses all the Torah on Mount Sinai including the prohibition of syncretism and idolatry. Since the establishment of an Israelite kingship the needs of a more differentiated society pressed the Yhwh-religion to a syncretistic and polytheistic extension. Connected with the expansion and the diplomatic relations of the Israelite kingdoms, the national gods of the neighbour states were subordinated or related to Yhwh. This chapter discusses some theological reflections on a responsible use of the monotheistic confession. Monolatry aggravates treaties and friendly relations to other nations, which worship different gods as long as the political realm is not separated from the confessional one. Keywords: biblical tradition; Israelite kingdoms; monotheistic confession; syncretistic extension; Yhwh-religion","PeriodicalId":141014,"journal":{"name":"The Land of Israel in Bible, History, and Theology","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125341333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conquest Of The Land, Loss Of The Land: Where Does Joshua 24 Belong?","authors":"M. Popovic","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004175150.I-474.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004175150.I-474.46","url":null,"abstract":"After the conquest of the land, Joshua gathered all the people of Israel and addressed them. The two important themes in Joshua 23 are strict observance of the Torah and the relationship with the nations that remain in the land. After the complete and successful conquest of the land, noted in Josh 21:43-45, Joshua's exhortation introduces a dark perspective. The central theme in Joshua 24 is the choice to serve God in the land given to Israel. The promise of the land has been fulfilled so far, but whether it will be completely fulfilled depends on Israel's obedience to and observance of the Torah. The overview of Israel's history in Josh 24:2-13 has been determined by the intention to emphasize Yahweh as the driving force behind Israel and present Israel itself as completely dependent on Yahweh. Keywords: Israel; Joshua 24; Torah; Yahweh","PeriodicalId":141014,"journal":{"name":"The Land of Israel in Bible, History, and Theology","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129877837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Sound The Trumpet!” Redaction And Reception Of Joshua 6:2–25","authors":"M. V. D. Meer","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004175150.I-474.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004175150.I-474.13","url":null,"abstract":"The Deuteronomistic addition of Josh 4:21- 5:8 to the pre-deuteronomistic statement in Josh 5:9 prompted the Greek translator to produce his much disputed text about the two categories of Israelites circumcised by Joshua. A later nomistic deuteronomistic editor (DtrN) transformed the address of Yhwh to Joshua for his own nomistic purposes (Josh 1:7-8). It is the author contention that something similar can be said about Joshua 6:2-25. In author views, textual and literary criticisms do not overlap in the case of Joshua 6. From a modern critical perspective, the Greek version should rather be seen as another example of stylistic shortening of a redactionally layered Hebrew text. In order to substantiate author thesis, the chapter first presents a synopsis of the Greek and Hebrew texts of the passage, then a redaction-critical analysis of the Hebrew text and subsequently an examination of the Greek text in its own context. Keywords: deuteronomist; Greek text; Hebrew text; Joshua","PeriodicalId":141014,"journal":{"name":"The Land of Israel in Bible, History, and Theology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127880064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Is This Not Written In The Book Of Jashar?” (Joshua 10:13c): References To Extra-Biblical Books In The Bible","authors":"K. Troyer","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004175150.I-474.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004175150.I-474.19","url":null,"abstract":"In his survey on books, Van der Woude summarizes what is known about \"lost books\" in Israel. Indeed, there are in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament references to books that are now lost. In Josh 10:12b-13a, for instance, there is the famous quote: \"Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and Moon, in the valley of Aijalon\". The text continues: \"And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies\". This chapter discusses with a question and a narrative recapitulation: \"Is this not written in the book of Jashar? The sun stopped in mid heaven, and did not hurry to set for about a whole day\". It investigates whether or not other references to books, like the book of Jashar, have also \"disappeared\"? The chapter review the data for the references to the lost books and focus on the different sorts of \"books of the Kings.\". Keywords: book of Jashar; books of the Kings; Hebrew Bible","PeriodicalId":141014,"journal":{"name":"The Land of Israel in Bible, History, and Theology","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132857196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reversal Of A Motif: “The Land Is Given Into the Hand Of The Wicked.” The Gift of Land In Some Wisdom Texts","authors":"Emke Jelmer Keulen","doi":"10.1163/ej.9789004175150.i-474.85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004175150.i-474.85","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers the use of the motif of the gift of the land in the wisdom texts. The terminology and the overtone of the occurrence of this motif in Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History can be heard in these texts. The chapter gives a short survey of how Deuteronomi(sti)c texts deal with the gift of the land as a background. Deuteronom(ist)ic texts deal with the Israelites and the gift of the land of Israel. This collective context fades away when the motif of the gift of the land occurs in wisdom texts. The reversal of the well known motif serves to emphasise that God's actions fully deviate from what the \"theological\" tradition makes people believe. In Job's eyes,God with holds the righteous the land. Keywords: Deuteronomistic History; gift of the land; Israel; motif; wisdom texts","PeriodicalId":141014,"journal":{"name":"The Land of Israel in Bible, History, and Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116804580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Holy Land” In Joshua 18:1–10","authors":"J. Vos","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004175150.I-474.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004175150.I-474.33","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter deals with the distribution of the land, belongs to a late phase in the literary history of the Hebrew Bible. God no longer plays an active role, as he had done in larger parts of the Pentateuch. He is rather perceived to be present in the land.This implied presence of God makes the land implicitly holy. The chapter illustrates this by a closer look at the text and the history of Josh 18:1-10. Joshua 18:1-10 thus appears in the centre of the narrative about the distribution of the Cisjordanian land, distinguishing the more important tribes of Judah and Joseph from the seven less important remaining tribes. Similar to the division of tasks by lots in 1Chronicles 23-27 the land in Joshua is divided by lots. In ancient times these lots were thought to reveal the will of God. Keywords: God; Hebrew Bible; holy land; Joseph; Joshua 18:1-10; Judah","PeriodicalId":141014,"journal":{"name":"The Land of Israel in Bible, History, and Theology","volume":"34 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132505494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“And The Landwas Subdued Before Them...”? Some Remarks On The Meaning Of בּכּש In Joshua 18:1 And Related Texts","authors":"Ute Neumann-Gorsolke","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004175150.I-474.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004175150.I-474.41","url":null,"abstract":"While the literary preference of Gen 1:28 to Josh 18:1 seems to be reflected carefully by many scholars, the understanding of כבש which occurs in Qal in Gen 1:28 but in Niphal in Josh 18:1 lacks this intensive. This chapter deals with the Semitic root kbs and its different semantic realizations, especially when mentioned in relation to \"land/earth\". It examines the biblical parallels in Numbers 32 and 1 Chronicles 22 that also share the syntagma and compares with Josh 18:1. The chapter presents the new way of understanding and introduce its theological implication. The Akkadian root kabasu offers an alternative concept of understanding the root kbכבש that avoids the idea of subduing. Keywords: Akkadian root kabāsu; Gen 1:28; Josh 18:1; subduing","PeriodicalId":141014,"journal":{"name":"The Land of Israel in Bible, History, and Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116003321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index Of Ancient Sources","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789047428602_030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047428602_030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":141014,"journal":{"name":"The Land of Israel in Bible, History, and Theology","volume":"126 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126300180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mountain Of Transfiguration In The Newtestament And In Later Tradition","authors":"T. Hilhorst","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004175150.I-474.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004175150.I-474.117","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines how the mountain was described before its identification with Mount Tabor, and traces the origin and history of that identification. It discusses whether it can stand the test of criticism. If the unnamed mountain in Deut 33:19 is Mount Tabor, it was a cultic centre of the tribes of Zebulun and Issachar, and Hos 5:1, although in a condemning tone, also alludes to a cultic practice on the mountain. In the New Testament, the name Tabor does not occur, but from the second century onward the mountain is associated in various ways with the life of Jesus. There is no need to continue quoting instances where the mountain of Jesus' transfiguration bears the name Tabor-suffice it to say that these instances grow more and more numerous as time progresses, in Byzantine texts as well as in those of Western Christianity. Keywords: Jesus' transfiguration; Mount Tabor; New Testament; Western Christianity","PeriodicalId":141014,"journal":{"name":"The Land of Israel in Bible, History, and Theology","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128385056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Jerusalem At Qumran And In The New Testament","authors":"F. G. Martínez","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004175150.I-474.108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004175150.I-474.108","url":null,"abstract":"Among the Aramaic texts preserved at Qumran, the so-called \"Description of the New Jerusalem,\" is attested to in fragmentary form in several copies found in caves 1. This chapter discusses the function (or the absence of function) of Jerusalem in New Testament eschatology, and also discusses the function (or absence of function) of Jerusalem in Qumran eschatology. It focuses on the basic text: the so-called Torah of Ezekiel: Ezekiel 40-48. The author of Revelation has taken from the vision of Ezekiel the measuring angel whose rod serves to precisely determine the dimensions of the city, the square form of the city, its wall, and its twelve gates with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. The presentation of the Qumran data has been greatly facilitated by an article by Schiffman which collected and duly classified most of the references to Jerusalem in the Scrolls. Keywords: Aramaic texts; Ezekiel 40-48; Israel; New Jerusalem; New Testament eschatology; Qumran eschatology","PeriodicalId":141014,"journal":{"name":"The Land of Israel in Bible, History, and Theology","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130750332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}