By Athalya Brenner, Frank H. Polak
This quantity brings jointly fourteen essays by means of Israeli, ecu and American students honouring the specified contribution of Yairah Amit to the literary examine of the Hebrew Bible and to her public position, fostering particularly where of the Hebrew Bible in Israeli schooling. In religious study she has made major contributions to the learn of redactional and editorial task, which she has continually seen from a rhetorical and literary perspective. those elements have been uniquely constructed in her paintings at the books of Judges and Chronicles, within which literary issues continually result in the popularity of the ideology at the back of the redactor's paintings. one other key topic of hers has been overt and hidden polemics expressed or prompt via the narrative textual content. The reviews assembled within the current quantity care for the various elements of Amit's paintings, from the biblical and post-biblical right down to the mediaeval and the trendy interval. valuable fields are the artwork of the redactor and inner-biblical polemics (Diana Edelman, Cynthia Edenburg, Nadav Na'aman, Meira Polliack, Dalit Rom-Shiloni), literary scrutiny (Ed Greenstein, Lillian Klein Abensohn, Frank Polak), ideology in social and non secular contexts (Ehud Ben Zvi, Israel Knohl), and feminist and cultural experiences in a much broader feel (Athalya Brenner, Cheryl Exum, Yael Feldman, Shulamit Valler).
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On the latter, see Begg 1988: 161-63; and Feldman 1998: 429. For later treatments of the event see Wieder 1975: 65. 1 8 Words, Ideas, Worlds by the addition of new prophets to the narrative as in Chronicles. But why would there be a tendency to marginalize the prophet at all within this discourse? Deuteronomy serves again as an excellent starting point for addressing this question. 4. Prophets/Prophecy and Torah: The Potentially Dangerous Character of Prophets/Prophecies and their Historiographical Implications The few references to J3?
22). By doing so, Chronicles not only resolves tensions on this matter,15 but also moves forward by having the people anointing not only 11. Unlike, for instance, Torah and its readers, Israel as a whole, or the temple and the priests. 12. There is a reference to an unnamed J3? J (‘prophet man’) in Judg. 8-10. Deborah is referred to as 9 J3? 9 in Judg. 4, but acts more like a judge, within certain gender constraints imposed by the discourse of the time. The )J9= 9 J in Judg. 3, 6-8 is not a real ‘prophet’ but reÀects the perception of Manoah’s wife of a ( =>.
But there was no reply. So the man placed her on the donkey and set out for home’ (vv. 26-28, JPS; emphasis mine, AB). =K8 Qal and Nif. and derivative nouns such as 9=K8 (‘robbery’ or ‘something robbed’, BDB: 159-60) appear in the Hebrew Bible over forty times. The English translations seem to have shied away from the strong de¿nition of the Benjaminites’ action. Thus the translations of this term are softer: ‘carried off’ (JPS, NIV), ‘caught’ (KJV), ‘abducted’ (NSRV). 1 24 Words, Ideas, Worlds way or the other to marry the corrupt Benjaminites, with neither their fathers nor they themselves having a say in this matter.