The Sons of Jacob and the Sons of Herakles (eBook)

The History of the Tribal System and the Organization of Biblical Identity

Andrew Tobolowsky (Autor)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
292 Seiten
Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)
978-3-16-155597-8 (ISBN)

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In this study, Andrew Tobolowsky offers a new approach to biblical descriptions of the tribes of Israel as the 'sons of Jacob'. He reveals how shifting assumptions about early Israelite history and the absence of references to Jacob in most accounts of the tribes make it unlikely that this understanding was part of early tribal discourse. Instead, drawing on extensive similarities between the role Jacob's children plays in the biblical narrative and the role that shared descent from figures such as Hellen and Herakles play in the construction of ancient Greek histories, Andrew Tobolowsky concludes that the 'tribal-genealogical' concept was first developed in the late Persian period as a tool for the production of a newly integrated, newly coherent account of a shared ethnic past: the first continuous biblical vision of Israelite history from Adam to the fall of Jerusalem and beyond.

Born 1985; 2015 PhD in Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean; since 2016 Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Dedication 6
Table of Contents 8
Introduction: Genealogical Myth and Biblical History 12
A. Biblical Genealogies, Oral Genealogies, Greek Genealogies 13
B. The State of the Evidence: Israel and Judah in Early Epigraphy and Archaeology 23
C. Archaeology and the United Monarchy 31
D. Historical Panisraeliteism and Biblical Panisraeliteism 38
E. Looking Forward 49
Chapter 1: The History of the Tribal System, Part I 54
A. What Do Differences Between Tribal Lists Mean? 56
B. Where to Start? Judges 5, and the First Phase of the Tribal System 62
C. Genesis 49: The Blessing of Jacob 66
D. Deuteronomy 33: The Last Israelite Vision 74
Chapter 2: The History of the Tribal System, Part II: The Priestly Invention of the Twelve Tribes of Israel 79
A. Introduction to the Priestly Source 80
B. The Earliest Twelve Tribe Lists 82
C. Where the Tribal System Is and Where It Is Not 89
D. The Meaning of Small Differences 91
Chapter 3: Jacob, Joseph, and the Birth of the Tribal-Genealogical Idea 96
A. Tradition Criticism and Narrative Development 97
B. The Tribal Birth Narratives 104
C. The Joseph Novella: Unified or Divided, Early or Late? 115
Chapter 4: The Tribal-Genealogical Layer 122
A. Genesis and What Follows: An Introduction 122
B. Genesis 35:22-26 and 46:8-25: The First Lists 127
C. Exodus 1:1-6:27: The Making of a "Panisraelite Anthology" 136
D. Numbers 1:20, 26:5-62, and the Tribal-Genealogical Layer 141
E. The Tribal-Genealogical Layer, Considered as a Whole 146
Chapter 5: The Primary History: Other Methods of Combination 150
A. The “Oath Promise Layer” 151
B. The David Tradition 157
C. David’s Descendants: Panisraelite Cross-References in the Books of Kings 162
D. Joshua 24, 1 Kings 18:31, and Undocumented Harmonizations 165
Chapter 6: The Chronicles Genealogy, the Catalogue of Women, and the Project of the Tribal-Genealogical System 172
A. Introduction to the Chronicles Genealogy 174
B. The Composition of the Chronicles Genealogy 178
C. The Pseudo-Hesiodic Catalogue of Women 184
D. Chronicles and the Catalogue: The Tools of the Genealogist 190
Chapter 7: The Sons of Jacob and the Sons of Herakles 199
A. The Return of the Herakleidai 200
B. The Sons of Herakles and the Sons of Jacob 212
C. The Meaning of Small Differences, Part II: Myth and Meaning 214
Chapter 8: Where, When, and How 221
A. The Bible in Persian Period Texts and the Tribal-Genealogical Layer 223
B. The Whole Picture 232
Conclusion: The Triple Coincidence: Text, Ethnicity, Genealogy 243
A. Text 245
B. Ethnicity 249
C. Genealogy 253
Bibliography 258
Index of References 286
Hebrew Bible 286
Index of Subjects 293

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• ISBN-10: 3-16-155597-X / 316155597X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-16-155597-8 / 9783161555978