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  • 1
    Article
    Article
    In:  Religion Compass 14,11 (2020) 1-14
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2020
    Titel der Quelle: Religion Compass
    Angaben zur Quelle: 14,11 (2020) 1-14
    Keywords: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; God Biblical teaching ; Tetragrammaton ; Middle East Antiquities
    Abstract: This article treats two separate but interrelated issues: (1) the historical origins of the deity YHWH (commonly rendered Yahweh), known from both biblical and non-biblical sources and (2) the origins and development of YHWH's profile(s) in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, specifically as it pertains to the problem of YHWH's historical beginnings and early character. After some preliminary considerations regarding the Hebrew Bible's utility for historical reconstruction and the potential contributions of archeology, iconography, onomastics, and historical linguistics to the problem of YHWH's historical origins, the article: (1) examines the earliest written evidence for the god YHWH in the historical record, (2) offers a comparative historical treatment of early analogs to YHWH's character and profile as it appears in the Hebrew Bible, and (3) concludes with an analysis of the most important contemporary scholarly hypotheses regarding YHWH's historical origins.
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  • 2
    Article
    Article
    In:  Journal of Biblical Literature 139,4 (2020) 721-745
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2020
    Titel der Quelle: Journal of Biblical Literature
    Angaben zur Quelle: 139,4 (2020) 721-745
    Keywords: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; God Biblical teaching ; God Name ; Biblical teaching
    Abstract: The formulaic divine title “God of Israel” (אלהי ישראל) appears just over two hundred times in the Hebrew Bible. Yet, despite the epithet's prevalence in biblical writing and scholarly discourse, critical scholarship has left the Bible's use of the title largely unexamined. This article represents a first effort toward redressing this important scholarly desideratum, critically evaluating the Hebrew Bible's use of the title as a necessary prolegomenon to a history of the title's political and religious significance in ancient Israel and Judah.
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  • 3
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2022
    Titel der Quelle: "A Community of Peoples"
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2022) 384-407
    Keywords: Bible Comparative studies ; Moabite stone ; Pregnant women ; War and society History ; Herem (The Hebrew word) ; Women Violence against
    Abstract: With the support of the Moabite god Kemosh, King Mesha of Moab recounts in KAI 181.14–18 his successful imposition of ḥērem on Nebo, an Israelite town east of the Jordan River that maintained a cult to Israel’s god YHWH during the Omride period. Historically, the ninth-century BCE Mesha Stele, now located in the Louvre, provides one of the most important sources for understanding the ancient institution of ḥērem-warfare, a religiously inflected political act in which an invading people targeted an enemy town, annihilated (some significant portion of) its population, and consecrated the slaughter to the attacking group’s deity. Drawing on theoretical tools from postcolonial and feminist critics on the role of gender in the discursive construction of political communities, this study offers a fresh historical interpretation of the religious politics of Mesha’s literary portrayal of ḥērem-warfare by analyzing the gendered dimensions of the Mesha Stele’s ḥērem-list (ll. 16–17), which specifies five gendered subgroups within Nebo’s slaughtered population. In particular, I argue on contextual, etymological, literary, and conceptual grounds that the ḥērem-inventory’s final, emphasized term, rḥmt (l. 17)—commonly translated by scholars as “female slaves,” “maidservants,” “concubines,” or the like—most likely refers to “pregnant women.” In its culmination with pregnant women, the Mesha Stele’s ḥērem-list rhetorically demonstrates the king’s complete fulfillment of his religious obligations to the Moabite god Kemosh, as well as Moab and Kemosh’s political dominance over Israel and its god YHWH. Pregnant women (and their fetuses) were highly vulnerable members of ancient society whose continued existence harbored the potentiality for the social and political rebirth of the Israelite “Other.” Religiously sanctioning violence against the bodies of “foreign” pregnant women thus serves as a special point of emphasis in the construction of the boundaries of an independent Moabite political identity ideologically centered on the institution of divine kingship.
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  • 4
    Language: English
    Year of publication: 2023
    Titel der Quelle: Biblical Archaeology Review
    Angaben zur Quelle: 49,3 (2023) 42-48
    Keywords: Omri dynasty, ; Baal Biblical teaching ; Eretz Israel History To 586 B.C. ; Middle East Antiquities
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  • 5
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Leiden : Brill
    ISBN: 9789004447721
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXII, 476 Seiten)
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 187
    Series Statement: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441019
    Series Statement: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stahl, Michael J. The "God of Israel" in history and tradition
    Keywords: God (Judaism) ; Hochschulschrift ; Bibel Altes Testament ; Gottesvorstellung ; Israel
    Abstract: Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1 The "God of Israel" in Biblical and Ancient Israelite Religion: Problems and Prospects -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Intellectual Horizons: Divine Identities in Scholarly Discourse -- 1.3 Theory and Method -- 1.4 The Data -- 1.5 The Scope of This Study -- 2 The "God of Israel" and the Politics of Divinity in Ancient Israel -- 2.1 Who was the "God of Israel"? -- 2.2 The Early Politics of God: El as "God of Israel" and Israel's Collective Political Heritage -- 2.3 The "God of Israel" in Transition: Judges 5 -- 2.4 When did YHWH Become the "God of Israel"? -- 2.5 YHWH and/or Baal? the Omrides in History and Biblical Tradition -- 2.6 The "God of Israel" between Collective and King: Conclusions -- 3 The "God of Israel": The God of Judah? -- 3.1 The Problem of the "God of Israel" in Monarchic Judah -- 3.2 Will the Real God of Judah Please Stand Up? -- 3.3 "YHWH of Hosts" and the Politics of Divinity in Monarchic Judah -- 3.4 The "God of Israel" in the Books of Kings -- 3.5 The "God of Israel" and Judah's Claim to Israel's Name -- 3.6 Kings and Priests, Palace and Temple: the "God of Israel" in Court and Cult -- 3.7 The "God of Israel" and the Politics of Late Monarchic Judah: Conclusions -- 4 The "God of Israel": The God of Yehud -- 4.1 The "God of Israel" after Kings (Ezekiel and Second Isaiah) -- 4.2 Ezra and Chronicles: Composition Histories, Dates, Settings, and Ideological Foci -- 4.3 "YHWH, God of Israel-He Is the God Who Is in Jerusalem": Ezra 1-6 -- 4.4 "YHWH, God of Israel, You Are Just": The "God of Israel" in Ezra 7-10 -- 4.5 "YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel, Is Israel's God": The "God of Israel" in Chronicles -- 4.6 The "God of Israel" and the Religious Politics of Post-Monarchic Yehud: Conclusions -- 5 The "God of Israel": The God of the Hebrew Bible -- 5.1 The "God of Israel": The God of the Hebrew Bible? -- 5.2 The "God of Israel" in Jeremiah -- 5.3 The "God of Israel" in Psalms -- 5.4 The "God of Israel" in Joshua -- 5.5 The "God of Israel" in Judges -- 5.6 The "God of Israel" in Exodus -- 5.7 The "God of Israel" in Isaiah -- 5.8 The "God of Israel": The God of the Hebrew Bible -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Abstract: In The "God of Israel" in History and Tradition , Michael Stahl provides a foundational study of the formulaic title "god of Israel" ( 'elohe yisra'el ) in the Hebrew Bible. Employing critical theory on social power and identity, and through close literary and historical analysis, Dr. Stahl shows how the epithet "god of Israel" evolved to serve different social and political agendas throughout the course of ancient Israel and Judah's histories. Reaching beyond the field of Biblical Studies, Dr. Stahl's treatment of the historical and ideological significances of the title "god of Israel" in the Hebrew Bible offers a fruitful case study into the larger issue of the ways in which religion may shape-and be shaped by-social and political structures
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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