{"id":110770,"date":"2009-12-29T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-2103601769144295444"},"modified":"2009-12-29T07:19:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T12:19:07","slug":"new-book-images-of-egypt-in-early-biblical-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/110770","title":{"rendered":"New Book: Images of Egypt in Early Biblical Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: georgia;\" class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.degruyter.de\/cont\/fb\/th\/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110221718-1\">http:\/\/www.degruyter.de\/cont\/fb\/th\/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110221718-1<\/a>  <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"\">Russell, Stephen C.<\/span><br \/><i><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Images of <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:country-region st=\"on\">Egypt<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> in Early Biblical Literature. Cisjordan-Israelite, Transjordan-Israelite, and Judahite Portrayals<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><span style=\"\"><br \/>2009 | Hardcover <o:p><\/o:p><br \/>ISBN 978-3-11-022171-8<o:p><\/o:p><br \/>Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift f\u00fcr die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 403<o:p><\/o:p><br \/>Also available as an eBook<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"\">\u201cThis book suggests a regional paradigm for understanding the development of the traditions about <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Egypt<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> and the exodus in the Hebrew Bible. It offers fresh readings of the golden calf stories in 1 Kgs 12:25-33 and Exod 32, the Balaam oracles in Num 22-24, and the Song of the Sea in Exod 15:1b-18 and from these paints a picture of the differing traditions about Egypt that circulated in Cisjordan Israel, Transjordan Israel, and Judah in the 8th century B.C.E. and earlier.<o:p><br \/><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"\">In the north, an exodus from <st1:country-region st=\"on\">Egypt<\/st1:country-region> was celebrated in the <st1:city st=\"on\">Bethel<\/st1:city> calf cult as a journey of Israelites from <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:country-region st=\"on\">Egypt<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> to Cisjordan, without a detour eastward to Sinai. This exodus was envisioned in military terms as suggested by the nature of the polemic in Exod 32, and the attribution of the exodus to the warrior <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Yahweh<\/st1:city>, <st1:country-region st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place>\u2019s own deity. In the east, a tradition of deliverance from <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Egypt<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> was celebrated, rather than the idea of a journey, and it was credited to El. In the south, <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Egypt<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> was recognized as a major enemy, whom Yahweh had defeated, but the traditions there were not formulated in terms of an exodus.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"\">While acknowledging the reshaping of these traditions in response to the exile, Images of Egypt argues that they originated in the pre-exilic period and relate to Syro-Palestinian history as it is otherwise known.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-2103601769144295444?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.degruyter.de\/cont\/fb\/th\/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110221718-1 Russell, Stephen C.Images of Egypt in Early Biblical Literature. Cisjordan-Israelite, Transjordan-Israelite, and Judahite Portrayals2009 | Hardcover ISBN 978-3-11-022171-8Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift f\u00fcr die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 403Also available as an eBook \u201cThis book suggests a regional paradigm for understanding the development of the traditions about Egypt and the exodus in the Hebrew Bible. It offers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}