Ezekiel, Law, and Judahite Identity: A Case for Identity in Ezekiel 1-33 (Forschungen Zum Alten Testament 2.reihe) 9783161565793, 9783161565809, 3161565797
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Cover
Title
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 The Scope of This Study
1.1.1 Ezekiel 1–33
1.1.2 The Need for a Case: Rival Prophets and Obstinate Audiences
1.1.3 Historicity of the Babylonian Deportation
1.2 The Organization of This Study
Chapter 2: The Book of Ezekiel in Historical Perspective
2.1 Authorship, Unity, and Provenance
2.1.1 Authorship and Unity
2.1.2 The Historical Ezekiel?
2.1.3 Provenance
2.2 Priestly Source, Holiness Code, and Ezekiel
2.2.1 Exilic or Post-Exilic P and Ezekiel
2.2.2 Pre-Exilic P and Ezekiel
2.2.3 Overview of H and Ezekiel
2.3 Feminist Scholarship Overview
2.3.1 Prophetic Metaphors
2.3.2 The Contextual Nature of Ezekiel 16
2.3.3 Justification of Mysogyny?
2.4 The Framework for the Present Study
Chapter 3: Ezekiel, Identity Development, and Psychological Studies
3.1 The Bible, Ezekiel, and Psychology
3.2 Judahite Identity and Psychological Methodologies
3.2.1 Shaye Cohen: The Origins of Jewishness
3.2.2 Dalit Rom-Shiloni: Ezekiel and Constructing Judahite Identity
3.3 The Erikson–Bronfenbrenner Model and Legal Elements
3.4 Conclusions
Chapter 4: The Accuser’s Indictment
4.1 Judahite and Neo-Babylonian Legal Procedures
4.1.1 Overview of Neo-Babylonian Court Procedure
4.1.2 Overview of Judahite Legal Procedures
4.2 Forensic Character of Ezekiel
4.2.1 Legal Precedents
4.2.2 Juridical Content
4.3 YHWH’s Judicial Disposition
4.3.1 Accusation of Defendant
4.3.2 Prophetic Sign Acts
4.3.3 Prohibition of Prophetic Advocacy
4.3.4 The Defendant’s Silence
4.3.5 Repeal of Prophetic Restrictions
4.3.6 The Absence of Innocence
4.3.7 Inquiring of YHWH
4.4 Conclusion
Chapter 5: Counterclaims and Challenges to the Accuser
5.1 Renunciation, Negligent Supervision, and Divine Abandonment
5.2 Erroneous Punishment and Judicial Misconduct
5.3 A Legal Proposal: The Death of the Prophet’s Wife
5.4 Conclusion
Chapter 6: Ezekiel 16: A Case Study
6.1 Legal Elements and Ezekiel
6.1.1 Abandonment, Adoption, and Marriage
6.1.2 Indictment, Punishment, and Ratification (16:15–63)
6.2 Judahite Identity
6.2.1 Abandonment and Identity
6.2.2 Adoption, Marriage, and Identity
6.2.3 Punishment and Identity
6.2.4 The Defendant’s Silence and Judahite Identity
6.3 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of References
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects
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Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe Edited by Konrad Schmid (Zürich) ∙ Mark S. Smith (Princeton) Hermann Spieckermann (Göttingen) ∙ Andrew Teeter (Harvard)
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Joel B. Kemp
Ezekiel, Law, and Judahite Identity A Case for Identity in Ezekiel 1 – 33
Mohr Siebeck
Joel B. Kemp, born 1976; 2010 M.Div. from Andover Newton Theological School; 2017 PhD in Hebrew Bible from Boston College (2017); currently Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Candler School of Theology of Emory University. orcid.org/ 0000-0001-6195-4623
ISBN 978-3-16-156579-3 / eISBN 978-3-16-156580-9 DOI 10.1628 / 978-3-16-156580-9 ISSN 1611-4914 / eISSN 2568-8367 (Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 2. Reihe) The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliographie; detailed bibliographic data are available at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2020 Mohr Siebeck Tübingen, Germany. www.mohrsiebeck.com This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form (beyond that permitted by copyright law) without the publisher’s written permission. This applies particularly to reproductions, translations and storage and processing in electronic systems. The book was printed on non-aging paper by Laupp & Göbel in Gomaringen and bound by Buchbinderei Nädele in Nehren. Printed in Germany.
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