{"title":"Ezra–Nehemiah and 1–2 Chronicles","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0041","url":null,"abstract":"Coming from the period of Persian vassalage and standing as the conclusion to the Jewish canon, these books set forth two things crucial for identity formation in the absence of national sovereignty. First, they provide a narrative heritage from creation to the (then) present, traced through genealogy and a rereading of Israel’s national history. Second, they provide an institutional heritage that underwrites the two most essential religious practices, Torah reading and temple worship. Ezra–Nehemiah takes an exclusivist approach to the question of identity, but Chronicles evinces a broader view of Israel’s life among the nations while retaining a firm attachment to Jerusalem and the land of Israel. Israel’s Scriptures end with Jews outside the land and encouraged to return; thus they point to an active God whose intentions for the people are not fully revealed or accomplished.","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130310605","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":"Reading the Story Once More—1–2 Chronicles","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0043","url":null,"abstract":"NARRATIVELY SPEAKING, 1–2 Chronicles moves back in time, long before Ezra–Nehemiah—indeed, to the beginning of biblical time, to Adam, whose name is the first word in the book. At the other end, Chronicles draws to a close with exactly the same event and even the same words with which Ezra–Nehemiah begins: Cyrus’s decree that YHWH has charged him to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem (2 Chr 36:22–23; cf. Ezra 1:1–3). Accordingly, the Talmud asserts that Ezra wrote most of Chronicles, and Nehemiah finished it (Bava Batra 15a). In 1832, Leopold Zunz, the first scholar of Jewish studies as a modern academic discipline, argued that Ezra–Nehemiah and Chronicles are two parts of a single work. Although that view prevailed for more than a century, in the last fifty years it has been forcefully challenged. On the basis of the two books’ different linguistic usages and theological perspectives, most would now see them as separate compositions. Ezra–Nehemiah may have been among the literary sources used by the author of Chronicles, and likely both were subsequently reworked as they were synchronized into the final account of people and events running from Adam to the restoration community in Jerusalem....","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115860608","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":"Wisdom, Power, Worship: Solomon’s Reign—1 Kings 1–12","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0020","url":null,"abstract":"FOLLOWING THE REMARKABLY frank and intimate views of Saul’s tortured mind and David’s troubled family, the account of Solomon may at first seem dry by comparison. For the most part, reports of palace intrigue end with the death of David (1 Kgs 2:10–11). The inside view of Solomon’s reign focuses on something that has played little or no role in the preceding royal accounts: the apparatus of monarchy. The chapters treated here include a list of royal officials and regional prefects (4:1–19), almost certainly the oldest official document in the Bible. Included also are detailed reports on requisitions of food for the royal banquet table and fodder for the royal stables (5:2–8 Heb., 4:22–28 Eng.). Banqueting was an essential vehicle of diplomacy in the ancient world,...","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127716877","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":"Complementarity and Rupture—Genesis 2:4–11:32","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"AS THE GENESIS narrative unfolds, things become more complicated, both literarily and humanly. The literary complication is that readers must attend to the interactions among multiple plot lines and strands of tradition, discerning patterns that stretch across multiple chapters. The human complication is that the first large-scale pattern that emerges entails widespread rupture, instigated by humans, of the initial harmony in God’s creation....","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"182 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133207903","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":"Learning to Struggle with God—Job","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0036","url":null,"abstract":"THE BOOK OF Job is commonly viewed as the most thorough biblical exploration of theodicy, the question of God’s justice. The “quack doctors” (Job 13:4) Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Na’amatite travel far from home1 for the purpose of upholding the validity of God’s justice. However, their well-worn arguments make no impression upon Job, whose mind is already settled on that question:...","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130383491","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":"Jeremiah and Lamentations","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Jeremiah and the Jeremiah-like voice in Lamentations provide immediate, insider views of Jerusalem’s decline and fall. Jeremiah’s laments give prophetic authority to anguished outcry as a mode of prayer. The highly structured poems of Lamentations belong to the ancient Near Eastern genre of lament for a city—a transcultural tradition that continues in Mahmoud Darwish’s twentieth-century poem “Silence for Gaza.” The acrostic poems of Lamentations, which constitute the most prolonged, intense expression of grief and shock in the Bible, force readers to reckon with the question of theodicy, God’s justice. Several literary features of this Hebrew poetry may also contribute to the work of reclaiming hope.","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"441 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123424939","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":"Job and the Song of Songs","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0035","url":null,"abstract":"These are books of impassioned dialogue and language that pushes the boundaries of intelligible religious speech. The book of Job does not treat God’s character or yield fresh thinking about theodicy. Rather, it is a book of wisdom theology (exploring the limits of human knowledge), of creation theology (considering the human place in the created order), and of mystical theology (exploring how character is transformed through suffering and, finally, through direct encounter with God). Options for interpreting the Song are now more contested than at any time since early in the Common Era. Origen’s approach is exemplary, with his lack of moralism and recognition of the Song’s poetics of relationality. Primarily through intertextual references, the Song uses the language of desire to evoke a longing that may include sexual desire and present ways to transcend it.","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121610151","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":"Slowing Down for Violence—Numbers 5 and 25","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"NUMBERS IS NOT the first place in the Bible that the volatile combination of sex and violence comes to the fore, but here it is impossible to ignore, especially in two lengthy passages: the judgment of a woman suspected of adultery (Num 5:11–31) and the execution of a couple who have sexual intercourse at the tent of meeting (Num 25). The first instinct of many readers may be to move quickly past passages that seem to manifest a primitive and dangerous obsession with sexual morality that has nothing to do with genuine religion. I recommend the opposite approach: slowing down over violent texts to consider what kind of critical and specifically theological response is appropriate. The violent language and imagery prevalent in biblical texts should slow us down, because it is not casual. In contrast to much of the violence found in modern films especially, violence in the Bible is rarely if ever meant to be “entertaining.” Pornography may use violence to shock and titillate, but these carefully composed biblical texts seem calculated to disturb in ways that may prove edifying, if read with care and wisdom. Film images of violence may flash across the screen in a bewildering succession, but biblical images of violence require patient probing if we are to comprehend their surprisingly subtle signals of dangers prevalent in the community of faith and our life with God....","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114776826","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":"Becoming God’s People—Exodus 16–40","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"IN EGYPT, THE descendants of Jacob, a.k.a. Israel, grew in numbers; the family of Israel became a people. But once they have crossed the Red Sea, Israel must begin to grow in character to become a people worthy of entering into covenant—“cutting a deal,” to use the Hebrew phrase—with YHWH at Sinai. The rest of the book introduces three crucial elements of their formation: first, a sustainable food economy (Exod 16); second, the gift of the core commandments, the fundaments of the covenant (Exod 19–24); and third, construction of the tabernacle, the wilderness sanctuary (Exod 25–31; 35–40)....","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127894098","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 Vision Expands—Isaiah 40–66","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190260545.003.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190260545.003.0027","url":null,"abstract":"“THE VISION OF ISAIAH” (Isa 1:1) expands vastly in these chapters, which date from a period some two centuries after Isaiah of Jerusalem. Thus, they show with striking clarity how a given prophetic tradition continued to command attention among new generations of hearers and to develop in new situations—specifically, in the last years of the Babylonian exile (Isa 40–55) and in postexilic Jerusalem (Isa 56–66). These chapters merit heightened attention even now, because they focus on an experience that is tragically common in our time: geographical and cultural displacement on a massive scale. They deal also with the subsequent difficulties of rebuilding a culture and sustaining faith. Accordingly, these chapters are the first part of the Bible to offer a developed theological response to a particular spiritual despair: that God has turned away or is impotent. Less acutely, they address spiritual disappointment: that God’s promises seem not to have been fulfilled for the present generation. A prominent theme of this prophetic response is the nature of vocation—not just individual vocation but also the corporate vocation of a people to serve YHWH....","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121310983","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}
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