Transforming Authority: Concepts of Leadership in Prophetic and Chronistic Literature

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Transforming Authority

Concepts of Leadership in Prophetic and Chronistic Literature

Edited by: Katharina Pyschny and Sarah Schulz

Volume 518 in the series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110650358

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About this book

Human leadership is a multifaceted topic in the Hebrew Bible from a synchronic as well as diachronic perspective. A large range of distributions emerges from the successive sharpening or modification of different aspects of leadership. While some of them are combined to a complex figuration of leadership, others remain reserved for certain individuals. Furthermore, it can be considered a consensus within scholarly debate, that concepts of leadership have a certain connection to the history of ancient Israel which is, though, hard to ascertain. Following a previous volume that focused on the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets (BZAW 507), this volume deals with different concepts of leadership in selected Prophetic (Hag/Zech; Jer) and Chronistic literature Ezr/Neh; Chr). They are examined in a literary, (religious-/tradition-) historical and theological perspective. Special emphasis is given to phenomena of transforming authority and leadership claims in exilic/post-exilic times. Hence, the volume contributes to biblical theology and sheds new light on the redaction/reception history of the texts. Not least, it provides valuable insights into the history of religious and/or political “authorities” in Israel and Early Judaism(s).

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Katharina Pyschny, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany, Sarah Schulz, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface and Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
I: Introduction
Introduction Katharina Pyschny and Sarah Schulz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II: Concepts of Leadership in Selected Prophetic Literature
Why Judean Monarchy Failed: A Discourse on Leadership in Jer 21:1–23:8 Christl M. Maier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Prophetic Leadership as Resistance: The Case of Baruch and Ebed-melech (Jeremiah 36–38) L. Juliana M. Claassens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Kingship and Priesthood – Reloaded (Jer 33:14–26) Johanna Erzberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
The Leadership of the Judean Community according to the Book of Haggai Jan Rückl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Messianism in Transition: Zech 9:9–10 between First and Second Zechariah Martin Schott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Zechariah 9–14 and the Transformations of Judean Royal Ideology during the Early Hellenistic Period Hervé Gonzalez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
III: Concepts of Leadership in Chronistic Literature
Conflicting Roles of Leadership in the Temple Building Account of Ezra 1–6 Anna Maria Bortz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Was Ezra a Persian or a Yehudite Leader? Bob Becking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Leadership in the World of Memories Evoked by Chronicles in the Context of the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Period Ehud Ben Zvi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Reflections on Leadership in Achaemenid Yehud: Case Studies from the Chronicler’s Imperial, Provincial, Tribal, and Cultic Rhetoric Louis C. Jonker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Judges, Elders, and Officers in Chronicles Yigal Levin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Diseased Leadership Isabel Cranz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
IV: Comprehensive Aspects of Leadership in Prophetic and Chronistic Literature
Zerubbabel, Joshua and the Restoration of the Temple – A Comparative Approach to the Concepts of Leadership in Haggai/ Zech 1–8 and Ezra 1–6 Sarah Schulz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Concepts of Prophetic Leadership in Chronicles and Their Relation to Prophetic Literature Katharina Pyschny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Index of Biblical References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Theology, Jewish Studies, Hebrew Bible Studies, ANE Studies, History of Ancient Israel.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 322
Keywords: Leadership; Haggai/Zechariah; Jeremia; Chronistic Literature

eBook

Published: September 7, 2021
ISBN: 9783110650358

Hardcover

Published: September 7, 2021
ISBN: 9783110646313

Paperback

Published: May 8, 2023
ISBN: 9783111256009