Oded Lipschits and David Vanderhooft: Summary Data of Yehud Stamp Impressions, Arranged by Type

The biblical book of Lamentations has received extensive scholarly attention in the past decade, research that moves beyond traditional historical-critical approaches. Although these traditional approaches have by no means been abandoned, new trends are nevertheless emerging. This article will survey the diverse field of research on Lamentations with particular focus given to feminist, psychological, theological, ecological, post-colonial and receptionhistorical approaches to Lamentations. The essay will, however, begin by presenting the rich work done on historical treatments of the book, as well as discussing the text and versions of Lamentations.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Survey of Research on Lamentations (2002–2012)

Thomas

2013

“…For the exilic period and beyond, Lipschits has been a crucial figure as editor and author. Specifically, he has collaborated with a number of scholars on the production of a series of volumes, published by Eisenbrauns, dealing sequentially with the state of Judah and Judeans from the Neo-Babylonian period onwards (Lipschits and Blenkinsopp 2003a;Lipschits 2005;Lipschits, Oeming, and Knoppers 2011;Lipschits and Oeming 2006). Other important collections dealing with the exilic period include Interpreting Exile: Interdisciplinary Studies of Displacement and Deportation in Biblical and Modern Contexts (Kelle, Ames, and Wright 2011); Exile and Restoration Revisited: Essays on the Babylonian and Persian Periods in Memory of Peter R. Ackroyd (Knoppers, Grabbe, and Fulton 2009); and From Babylon to Eternity: The Exile Remembered and Constructed in Text and Tradition (Becking, Cannegieter, and van der Pol 2009).…”

Section: The Period Of the Dual Monarchies And The Exilementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet, it is only through the frame employed by mid-twentieth-century biblical scholars, in which traditions rather inevitably expressed continuity with their earliest formulations, that 'reconstrual' seems a limited ideological activity. It now seems likely that the late Persian period did feature the kind of revival of interest in the ancient Israelite past that might explain its importance as the locus in which the biblical vision of history finally emerged (Lipschits andVanderhooft 2006, 2014;Vanderhooft 2011: 540;Frevel and Pyschny 2014;Leith 2014;Bocher and Lipschits 2013;Wyssmann 2014).…”

Section: The Persian Period and Beyondmentioning

confidence: 99%

Israelite and Judahite History in Contemporary Theoretical Approaches

Tobolowsky

2018

This article surveys developments in the study of the histories of ancient Israel and Judah with a focus on the last ten years. Over that period there has been an increased focus on extrabiblical evidence, over biblical text, as the primary means of constructing comprehensive histories, and a revival of interest in post-modern and linguistic-turn theories with respect to establishing what kinds of histories should be written. This study offers a general discussion of the last decade’s trends; an inquiry into the possibility that Judahite authors only assumed an Israelite identity after the fall of Israel; and an era-by-era investigation of particular developments in how scholars think about the various traditional periods of Israelite and Judahite history. The latter inquiry spans the pre-monarchical period to the Persian period.

“…The essence of the discussion on the reign of the last four Kings of Judah (Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, Zedekiah) focuses on historical questions discussed in the first part of this article (see, most recently, Lipschits 2005). Only the figures of Jehoiachin and Zedekiah have been studied from a literary perspective: Zedekiah, by Applegate (1998); and Jehoiachin, by Granowski (1992).…”

Section: The Last Kings Of Judahmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Book of Kings in Recent Research (Part II)

Avioz

2006

In the first part of my article ( CBR 4.1 [2005]), I surveyed the research conducted on various, diverse aspects of the book of Kings, starting in the early 1990s and until 2004. In this article, I will focus on research dealing with the characters appearing in the book of Kings, using this classification: kings, beginning with David; prophets, especially Elijah and Elisha; and women, including Jezebel, the widow of Zarephath, and Shunammite woman. The different studies represent current trends in Bible research today: rejection of the historical reliability of the narratives, on the one hand, and, on the other, its acceptance; male voices and female voices; and diachronic methods and synchronic methods. In addition, many scholars call for multi-disciplinary methodologies that combine, for example, literary and sociological methods.