1st Edition
Myths of Exile History and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible
Introduction
Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme and Ingrid Hjelm
Part I: Creating Exilic Identities
1. Exile as the Great Divide: Would There be an ‘Ancient Israel’ without an Exile?
Niels Peter Lemche
2. God Leading His People: Exodus’ Longue Durée
Fabio Porzia
3. Exile and Return and the Closure of the Samaritan and Jewish Canons
Ingrid Hjelm
4. Constructions of Exile in the Persian Period
Cian Power
5. Exile as Pilgrimage?
Ingrid Hjelm
6. Psalm 137: Exile as Hell!
Niels Peter Lemche
Part II: Motifs of Exile and Return
7. Sheep without a Shepherd. Genesis’ Discourse on Justice and Reconciliation as Exile’s Raison d’Etre
Thomas L. Thompson
8. Idol-Taunt and Exilic Identity: A Dalit Reading of Isa 44:9–20
Dominic S. Irudayaraj
9. Exile and Emergent Monotheism: Learning Loyalty from Jeremiah 42-44
Rob Barrett
10. The Return from Exile in Ezra-Nehemiah
Roberto Piani
Biography
Rob Barrett worked on a Sofja-Kovalevskaja research project on early Jewish monotheisms from 2009 to 2012, is author of Disloyalty and Destruction: Religion and Politics in Deuteoronomy and the Modern World, and is now Director of Forums and Scholarship at The Colossian Forum.
Dominic S. Irudayaraj holds graduate degrees in Biblical Studies and Computers. He taught at Herat University, Afghanistan and at Andhra Loyola College, India. He is currently a doctoral student at Jesuit School of Theology of SCU, CA.
Ingrid Hjelm, Associate Professor, Department of Biblical Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. Author of Jerusalem’s Rise to Sovereignty: Zion and Gerizim in Competition (T&T Clark International, 2004) and The Samaritans and Early Judaism. A Literary Analysis (Sheffield Academic Press, 2000).
Niels Peter Lemche, Professor of theology at the University of Copenhagen 1987-2013. Founding member of the "Copenhagen School". His work has concentrated on Israelite history, and more recently on the Old Testament as a Hellenistic book.
Roberto Piani, Biblical and Theological Adviser, Catholic Church in Bremen, Germany. Licentiate (2009) in Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, Italy. Contributor to the journal Aggiornamenti Sociali, Milan, Italy.
Fabio Porzia, Master in Old Testament Exegesis at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome (Italy), currently a PhD student at the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès (France) and the University of Florence (Italy), working on the development of the Jewish identity during the first millennium BCE.
Cian Power is a doctoral student at Harvard University's Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department. Cian's dissertation examines the attitudes of the auth
