1st Edition

Biblical Narratives of Israelites and their Neighbors Strangers at the Gate

By Adriane Leveen Copyright 2017
216 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Throughout the Hebrew Bible, strangers are indispensable to the formation of a collective Israelite identity. Encounters between the Israelites and their neighbors are among the most urgent matters explored in biblical narratives, yet relatively little scholarly attention has been paid to them. This book corrects that imbalance by carrying out close readings of the accounts of Israel’s myriad... Read more

1 Introduction

Part 1: The Wilderness Journey and its End

2 Inside Out: Jethro and the Midianites

3 Crossing Over and Settling the Land

Part 2: Living in the Land

4 Enemies in the Borderlands

5 Warriors and Kings

6 Solomon and his neighbors

Part 3: Unsettled in the Land

7 ‘My father was a fugitive Aramaean’

8 Strangers at the Gate

Biography

Adriane Leveen is a Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible at the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, USA. Adriane’s research focuses on the Bible, Literary, Rhetorical and Cultural Studies, and Gender and Redaction Criticism. She has been published in a variety of journals on these subjects and has authored a book entitled Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers (2008).