No comprehensive history of Israelite religion has been published for some time now, so this new, encyclopaedic work meets a considerable need. The two volumes cover the history of the religion of Israel and Judah from the earliest recognizable beginnings to the Hellenistic period and constantly take into account not only the other religions of the ancient Near East but also Israelite social history. The history of Israel's religion is described as an interplay between historical demands, religious experiences and theological reactions, as the ongoing struggle between different groups over the appropriate religious response to God and the social practice that needs to go with it. Worked out in conjunction with lectures given over a long period, this history is particularly readable. Its broad approach combines archaeological, historical, social, literary and religious information into a living scenario and consequently not only illuminates its subject but gives the reader a stimulating survey of the whole of Old Testament research at the present time. There are of course full bibliographies which pay particular attentio

A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period Volume 1 from the Beginnings to the End of the Exile

Reference

Albertz, Rainer

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

SCM Press

No comprehensive history of Israelite religion has been published for some time now, so this new, encyclopaedic work meets a considerable need. The two volumes cover the history of the religion of Israel and Judah from the earliest recognizable beginnings to the Hellenistic period and constantly take into account not only the other religions of the ancient Near East but also Israelite social history. The history of Israel's religion is described as an interplay between historical demands, religious experiences and theological reactions, as the ongoing struggle between different groups over the appropriate religious response to God and the social practice that needs to go with it.

A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period: Volume 2 From the Exile to the Maccabees (History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period, 2)

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd

This much-anticipated second volume of A History of Israelite Religion begins at the period of the exile and carries the investigation of Israelite religion to the period of the Maccabean revolt, thereby concentrating its focus on a period given less prominence in other studies of the type.

A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period, Volume 2: From the Exile to the Maccabees (Old Testament Library)

Westminster John Knox Pr

This book, the first of two volumes, offers a comprehensive history of Israelite religion. It is a part of the Old Testament Library series.
The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.

A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period: Volume I: From the Beginnings to the End of the Monarchy

Westminster/John Knox Press

This book, the second of two volumes, offers a comprehensive history of Israelite religion. It is a part of the Old Testament Library series.The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.

A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period: Volume II: From the Exile to the Maccabees

During the past several decades, family and household religion has become a topic of Old Testament scholarship in its own right, fed by what were initially three distinct approaches: the religious-historical approach, the gender-oriented approach, and the archaeological approach. The first pursues answers to questions of the commonality and difference between varieties of family religion and describes the household and family religions of Mesopotamia, Syria/Ugarit, Israel, Philistia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Gender-oriented approaches also contribute uniquely important insights to family and household religion. Pioneers of this sort of investigation show that, although women in ancient Israelite societies were very restricted in their participation in the official cult, there were familial rituals performed in domestic environments in which women played prominent roles, especially as related to fertility, childbirth, and food preparation. Archaeologists have worked to illuminate many aspects of this family religion as enacted by and related to the nuclear family unit and have found evidence that domestic cults were more important in Israel than has previously been understood. One might even conceive of every family as having actively partaken in ritual activities within its domestic environment.
Family and Household Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant analyzes the appropriateness of the combined term family and household religion and identifies the types of family that existed in ancient Israel on the basis of both literary and archaeological evidence. Comparative evidence from Iron Age Philistia, Transjordan, Syria, and Phoenicia is presented. This monumental book presents a typology of cult places that extends from domestic cults to local sanctuaries and state temples. It details family religious beliefs as expressed in the almost 3,000 individual Hebrew personal names that have so far been recorded in epigraphic and biblical material. The Hebrew onomasticon is further compared with 1,400 Ammonite, Moabite, Aramean, and Phoenician names. These data encompass the vast majority of known Hebrew personal names and a substantial sample of the names from surrounding cultures. In this impressive compilation of evidence, the authors describe the variety of rites performed by families at home, at a neighborhood shrine, or at work. Burial rituals and the ritual care for the dead are examined. A comprehensive bibliography, extensive appendixes, and several helpful indexes round out the masterful textual material to form a one-volume compendium that no scholar of ancient Israelite religion and archaeology can afford not to own.

Family and Household Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant

History

Schmitt, Rüdiger

Ancient Civilizations

Eisenbrauns

Die Entstehung des Zwölfprophetenbuches gehört zu den am intensivsten diskutierten Forschungsfeldern der neueren alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Der vorliegende Band umfasst 24 Aufsätze international führender Experten auf dem Gebiet der Zwölfprophetenbuch-Forschung aus Deutschland, der Schweiz, England, Finnland und den USA. Behandelt werden verschiedene Teilaspekte: Die methodischen Grundlagen der Frage nach buchübergreifenden Redaktionsprozessen kommen ebenso zur Sprache wie die Entstehung einzelner Bücher und Teilsammlungen im Kontext des Zwölfprophetenbuches oder die historischen Hintergründe solcher Entstehungsprozesse. Auch neue Erkenntnisse zum Text des Zwölfprophetenbuches in den Qumran-Handschriften oder der Septuaginta werden vorgestellt. So gibt der Band einen umfassenden Einblick in den gegenwärtigen Stand der Forschung zum Zwölfprophetenbuch.

Perspectives on the Formation of the Book of the Twelve: Methodological Foundations - Redactional Processes - Historical Insights (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 433)

Nogalski, James

Wöhrle, Jakob

Walter de Gruyter

Geschichte und Theologie II: Studien zur Literatur-, Religions- und Theologiegeschichte des Alten Testaments (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 551) (German Edition)

de Gruyter

Die Josephsgeschichte Im Pentateuch: Ein Beitrag Zur Uberwindung Einer Anhaltenden Forschungskontroverse (Forschungen Zum Alten Testament) (German Edition)

Mohr Siebeck

The period of the Babylonian Exile (597/587-520 B.C.E.) is one of the most enthralling eras of biblical history. During this time, Israel went through what was probably its deepest crisis; at the same time, however, the cornerstone was laid for its most profound renewal. The crisis provoked the creation of a wealth of literary works (laments, prophetic books, historical works, etc.) whose development is analyzed in detail by the methods of social history, composition criticism, and redaction criticism. The history of this era is hard to grasp, since the Bible has almost nothing to say of the exilic period. The author nevertheless attempts to illuminate the historical and social changes that affected the various Judean groups, drawing heavily on extrabiblical and archaeological evidence. His study also includes the treatment of the exile in later biblical material (Daniel, Tobit, Judith, apocalyptic literature). Thirty-five years after Peter Ackroyd's classic "Exile and Restoration," this book summarizes extensively the results of recent scholarship on this period and builds on them with a number of its own hypotheses. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)

Israel in Exile: The History and Literature of the Sixth Century B.C.E (Studies in Biblical Literature (Society of Biblical Literature), 3.)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Brill Academic Pub

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