The Crisis of Israelite Religion : : Transformation of Religious Tradition in Exilic and Post-Exilic Times / / edited byM.C.A. Korpel, Bob Prof. Dr. Becking.

• Superior document: Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies ; 42
• TeilnehmendeR: Korpel, M.C.A.,; Becking, Bob Prof. Dr.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 1999.
• Blwyddyn Gyhoeddi: 1999
• Iaith: English
• Cyfres: Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies ; 42.
• Disgrifiad Corfforoll: 1 online resource (320 pages)

Exile and Return have caused a crisis in Israelite religion. This crisis eventually gave the impetus for the emergence of Judaism. The papers in this volume, originally read at a Symposium organized by Utrecht University in April 1998, discuss the relevant aspects of this crisis and the shift from Y...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Bob Becking and Marjo C.A. Korpel
• Acknowledgments / Bob Becking and Marjo C.A. Korpel
• Continuity and Discontinuity after the Exile Some Introductory Remarks / Bob Becking
• Israel's Historical Reality after the Exile / Lester L. Grabbe
• Exile and Restoration in the Book of Chronicles / Sara Japhet
• Niedergang und Neuanfang: Die Haltung der Schlussredaktion des deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerkes zu den wichtigsten Fragen ihrer Zeit / Walter Dietrich
• In the Babylonian Exile with J / John van Seters
• Second Isaiah's Coping with the Religious Crisis: Reading Isaiah 40 and 55 / Marjo C.A. Korpel
• The Valley of Dry Bones: Coping with the Reality of the Exile in the Book of Ezekiel / Meindert Dijkstra
• 'Powerful Persianisms' in Glyptic Iconography of Persian Period Palestine / Christoph Uehlinger
• Paritätische Madelle von männlich und weiblich am Anfang und Ende der Priesterschriftlichen Schöpfungserzählung (Gen. l:l-2:4a) / Helen Schüngel-Straumann
• Readings in Haggai: From the Prophet to the Completed Book, a Changing Message in Changing Times / Janet Tollington
• 'Indeed, Servants We Are': Ezra 9, Nehemiah 9 and 2 Chronicles 12 Compared / Harm van Grol
• Religio-Historical Aspects of the 'Early Post-Exilic' Period / Herbert Niehr
• Religion in Palestine in the Assyrian and Persian Periods / Ephraim Stern
• Continuity and Community: The Belief System of the Book of Ezra / Bob Becking
• The Belief System of the Book of Nehemiah / Hugh G.M. Williamson
• Abbreviations / Bob Becking and Marjo C.A. Korpel
• Index of Authors / Bob Becking and Marjo C.A. Korpel
• Index of Biblical Texts / Bob Becking and Marjo C.A. Korpel
• Index of Elephantine Texts / Bob Becking and Marjo C.A. Korpel
• Index of Subjects / Bob Becking and Marjo C.A. Korpel
• Oudtestamentische Studiën / Editor: Johannes C. de Moor.