Doron Mendels

Why Did Paul Go West? (eBook, PDF)

Jewish Historical Narrative and Thought

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In his new book Doron Mendels addresses the topic of the authority of texts and their transmission, as well as different strategies of narration in ancient texts. Mendels provides extensive treatment of issues such as linearity, emporality and simultaenity of texts, whilst working to examine four core themes. First, the narrator and his strategies in the historiography of the Hellenistic period. Secondly, Jewish Historical thought in the Hellenistic period and beyond. Thirdly, issues of Hellenization in Palestine - power, honour, gifting, etiquette and sovereignty and their presentation in the main narrative of the Hasmonean period. Finally Mendels gives attention to the 'split' in the Jewish diaspora between east and west, as exemplified from a Christian point of view, it is this that unites these themes into a sustained examination of Jewish historical narrative and thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567610379
• Artikelnr.: 40055891

Autorenporträt

Doron Mendels is Max and Sophie Mydans Professor in the Humanities at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His recent publications include: Identity, Religion and Historiography and The Media Revolution of Early Christianity.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why Did Paul Go West?
2. How Was Antiquity Treated in Societies with a Hellenistic Heritage? And
Why Did the Rabbis Avoid Writing History?
3. Can We Read a Historical Text as a Musical Score? A New Approach to
Polyphony and Simultaneity in 1 Maccabees
4. The Conceptual Linearity of Historical Narrative and Its Distortion. A
Preliminary Note
5. Memory and Memories. The Attitude of 1 and 2 Maccabees toward
Hellenization and Hellenism
6. Phases of Inscribed Memory Concerning the Land of Israel in Palestinian
Judaism of the Second Century BCE. The Case of 1 Maccabees
7. Etiquette I: Was the Rejection of Gifts One of the Reasons for the
Outbreak of the Maccabean Revolt? A Preliminary Note on the Role of Gifting
in the Book of 1 Maccabees
8. Etiquette II: Honor and Humiliation as a Factor in Hasmonean Politics
According to the Narrator of 1 Maccabees
9. Political Theology I: Deus Duplex to Deus Silens. The State of Exception
in the Political Theology of 1 Maccabees
10. Political Theology II: 1 Maccabees and Liberation from a Competing
King-God and the Phenomenon of Rifts Inherent in Ancient Israel
Selected Bibliography