Jewish cultural encounters in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world /

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Meeting name:	Qumran Institute Symposium (3rd : 2013 December : University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Description:	vi, 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; volume 178 Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 178.
Subject:	Bible. -- Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses. Dead Sea scrolls -- Congresses. Bible. -- Old Testament. Dead Sea scrolls. Jews -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- Congresses. Jews -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses. Judaism -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- Congresses. Judaism -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses. Jews. Judaism. Mediterranean Region. Middle East. Conference papers and proceedings. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11040905

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Other authors / contributors:	Popović, Mladen, editor. Schoonover, Myles, editor. Vandenberghe, Marijn, editor.
ISBN:	9789004336186 9004336184
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	"The essays in this volume originate from the Third Qumran Institute Symposium held at the University of Groningen, December 2013. Taking the flexible concept of "cultural encounter" as a starting point, the essays in this volume bring together a panoply of approaches to the study of various cultural interactions between the people of ancient Israel, Judea, and Palestine and people from other parts of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world. In order to study how cultural encounters shaped historical development, literary traditions, religious practice and political systems, the contributors employ a broad spectrum of theoretical positions (e.g., hybridity, métissage, frontier studies, postcolonialism, entangled histories and multilingualism), to interpret a diverse set of literary, documentary, archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic, and iconographic sources"--
Other form:	Online version: Qumran Institute Symposium (3rd : December 2013 : University of Groningen, Netherlands). Jewish cultural encounters in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004336919

Table of Contents:

1. Ancient Jewish Cultural Encounters and a Case Study on Ezekiel
2. Taming Egypt: The Impact of Persian Imperial Ideology and Politics on the Biblical Exodus Account
3. Exchange, Replacement, or Acceptance? Two Examples of Lending Deities among Ethnic Groups in Elephantine
4. Netting Marduk? The Concept of Hidden Transcripts and the Transfer of Cultural Knowledge from Mesopotamian to Judean Texts
5. The Prayer of Nabonidus in the Light of Hellenistic Babylonian Literature
6. Levels of Meaning and Textual Polysemy in Akkadian and Hebrew Exegetical Texts
7. "Judaism" and "Hellenism": Martin Hengel's Work in Perspective
8. Choosing Between Papyrus and Skin: Cultural Complexity and Multiple Identities in the Qumran Library
9. What Does India Have to Do with Jerusalem? Ben Sira, Language, and Colonialism
10. Hybridity, Hydrology, and Hidden Transcript: Sirach 24 and the Judean Encounter with Ptolemaic Isis Worship
11. Reflections on the Cultural Encounter between the Jews and the Greeks and Romans in Jewish Coin Iconography of the Hellenistic-Roman Period
12. Philo's Greek Scriptures and Cultural Symbiosis
13. "I Wish Those Who Unsettle You Would Mutilate Themselves!" (Gal 5:12): Circumcision and Emasculation in the Letter to the Galatians
14. Rabbis and Romanization: A Review Essay
15. Subversion and Subculture: Jewish Time-Keeping in the Roman Empire
16. Elijah's Cave in Haifa: Whose Holy Site is this Anyway?
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Sources

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