Religion, Ethnicity and Xenophobia in the Bible A Theoretical, Exegetical and Theological Survey Routledge Studies in the Biblical World Series
Auteur : Rainey Brian
Religion, Ethnicity and Xenophobia in the Bible looks at some of the Bible?s most hostile and violent anti-foreigner texts and raises critical questions about how students of the Bible and ancient Near East should grapple with "ethnicity" and "foreignness" conceptually, hermeneutically and theologically. The author uses insights from social psychology, cognitive psychology, anthropology, sociology and ethnic studies to develop his own perspective on ethnicity and foreignness.
Starting with legends about Mesopotamian kings from the third millennium BCE, then navigating the Deuteronomistic and Holiness traditions of the Hebrew Bible, and finally turning to Deuterocanonicals and the Apostle Paul, the book assesses the diverse and often inconsistent portrayals of foreigners in these ancient texts. This examination of the negative portrayal of foreigners in biblical and Mesopotamian texts also leads to a broader discussion about how to theorize ethnicity in biblical studies, ancient studies and the humanities. This volume will be invaluable to students of ethnicity and society in the Bible, at all levels.
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter One Biblical scholarship and "the Other"; Chapter Two Birds of a feather: explaining ethnic foreignness; Chapter Three "Brood of destruction": Mesopotamian caricatures of foreigners; Chapter Four "He fixed the boundaries of the earth": some biblical idioms of ethnicity; Chapter Five "A non-people, a foolish nation": caricatures of foreigners in Deuteronomistic texts; Chapter Six "I was repulsed by them": caricatures of foreigners in holiness texts; Chapter Seven "Foolish by nature": the reverberations of ethnic polemics in the Bible; Chapter Eight "In order that I might horrify them": a theological appraisal; Bibliography; Index
Brian Rainey is Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA.
Date de parution : 12-2020
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 11-2018
15.6x23.4 cm
Mots-clés :
Deuteronomistic Tradition; Holy Man; xenophobia and the hebrew bible; Human Kinds; hebrew bible and identity creation; Mesopotamian Texts; foreigners in the hebrew bible; Holiness Tradition; early israelite identity; Holiness Code; early israelite ethnicity; Deuteronomistic Texts; identity creation in early israel; Deuteronomistic Sources; xenophobia in Deuteronomistic texts; Standard Babylonian Version; xenophobia in holiness texts; Resident Alien; hebrew bible and non-israelites; Ethnic Group Conceptualization; jews and gentiles in the hebrew bible; Neo-Assyrian Kings; jews and non-jews in the hebrew bible; Ethnic Foreigners; ethnicity in mesopotamia; Foolish Nation; ethnicity in biblical studies; Jeremiah 10; ethnicity in the ancient world; Ben Sira; foreignness in the hebrew bible; Young Man; book of Deuteronomy; Ethnic Group Members; Deuteronomistic History; Child Sacrifice; ethnicity and second temple judaism; Israel’s God; ethnicity in second temple period; Wicked City; xenophobia in second temple judaism; Ethnic Group’s Cultural Practices; xenophobia in second temple period; Common Ancestry; Israelite Male; Territorial Origins