On the relationship of Judah and Samaria in post-exilic times: A farewell to the conflict paradigm

Hensel, Benedikt

doi:10.1177/0309089217748304

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“…In contrast to the rejection of the Samaritans in Ezra-Nehemiah, the book of Chronicles has a more inclusive approach, seeing Samaria as a part of "All Israel"as long as they fall under the wings of the Jerusalemite temple.5 1 F 51 The establishment of the temple on Mt. Gerizim5 2 F 52 and the diminishing economic interaction between Judah and Samaria indicate that the gap between them was widening, but it seems there was no real ongoing conflict between the two during the Persian Period.5 3 F 53 At this time, Ammon was recovering from the Babylonian destruction. 54 The Tobiads were a prominent Judahite family in that region for hundreds of years, well into the Hellenistic period.…”

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In Nehemiah's Footsteps? Uzziah at the Service of the Chronicler's Ideology

Gluska,

Lipschits

2024

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Uzziah ruled in Judah for many years, yet the description of his rule in the book of Kings is laconic. The book of Chronicles, on the other hand, provides an extensive description of his reign that stems from authorial ideology, theology, and processes of identity formation. The book of Ezra-Nehemiah describes a series of confrontations from four directions, with Uzziah’s battles with the Philistines, the Arab tribes, and the Ammonites being three of these fronts. The Chronicler, writing several decades after Ezra-Nehemiah, was aware of the Ezra-Nehemiah text or its narrative, and developed the figure of Uzziah as a great king, thus serving his own national, economic, ethnic, and religious goals.

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Section: Judah and Its Surroundings During The Persian Periodmentioning

confidence: 99%

In Nehemiah's Footsteps? Uzziah at the Service of the Chronicler's Ideology

Gluska,

Lipschits

2024

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“…79-84). 32 For the recent debate on the so-called "conflict paradigm", see (Hensel 2019b) (with literature discussion). 33 See (Lipschits et al 2011, p. 34).…”

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“…The notion that YHWH has "chosen"(‫)בחר‬ the temple of Jerusalem as YHWH's place ‫ֹום(‬ ‫מק‬ ָ ) is then repeated in 2 Chr 7:16, where the promise of election of the house is combined with the notion that YHWH's name will reside there: 80 Cf. (Hensel 2019b;Hensel 2018a). 81 See among more recent studies especially Nihan and Gonzalez 2018;Kartveit 2016;Jonker 2016).…”

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Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles—New Insights into the Early History of Samari(t)an–Jewish Relations

Hensel

2020

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This article addresses the way the book of Ezra-Nehemiah on one hand and Chronicles on the other reflect the relationship between Samaria and Judah in the postexilic period. With regard to Ezra-Nehemiah, the focus is placed on Ezra 4:1–5, 6–23, 24, which evokes a particular image of the nature of the relationship between Samaria and Judah within the report of the construction of the temple in Ezra 1–6 that can function paradigmatically for the book as a whole. With regard to Chronicles, the focus lies on the theme of cult centralization, which became established in a particular manner through the reception of earlier tradition. The article concludes that both works, each in its own way, call forth critique of Samaria and the Samaritans in order to establish a separate Judean or Jewish group identity. The critique of the two works is dated to the late fourth or early third centuries BCE. As such, both are reckoned among the first witnesses heralding a shift in the perception of Samaria in biblical literature, namely toward a polemical and unequivocally negative perspective attested later in, for example, Josephus.

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“…The new perspective on the early tensions between Judah and Samaria was developed especially, but not only, by Hensel and Heckl in a number of publications. For Hensel, see above all Juda and Samaria (Hensel 2016); "On the Relationship" (Hensel 2019); "Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles" (Hensel 2020a), and most recently the above mentioned "Yahwistic Diversity" (Hensel 2018a); "Cult Centralization in the Persian Period" (Hensel 2018a) and "Debating Temple" (Hensel 2021). For Heckl, see his book Neuanfang (Heckl 2016), published in the same year as Hensel's book Juda and Samaria; and his article "The Composition of Ezra-Nehemiah" (Heckl 2018).…”

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