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Before the God in this Place for Good Remembrance

A Comparative Analysis of the Aramaic Votive Inscriptions from Mount Gerizim

By: Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme

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Before the God in this Place for Good Remembrance

A Comparative Analysis of the Aramaic Votive Inscriptions from Mount Gerizim

By: Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme

This monograph is an investigation of Yahwistic votive practice during the Hellenistic period. The dedicatory inscriptions from the Yahweh temple on Mount Gerizim are analyzed in light of votive practice in Biblical literature and in general on the basis of a thorough terminological and theoretical discussion. A special focus is laid on remembrance formulae, which request the deity to remember the worshipper in return for a gift. These formulae cannot only be found at Gerizim, but also in other Semitic dedicatory inscriptions. Therefore these texts are interpreted in their broader cultural context, placed within a broad religious practice of dedicating gifts to the gods and leaving inscriptions in sanctuaries. Finally, the aspect of divine remembrance in the Hebrew Bible is explored and related to the materiality of the votive inscription. The research concludes that there is a perception of the divine behind this practice on Mount Gerizim that ties together the aspects of gift, remembrance and material presence. This ‘theology’ is echoed both in similar Semitic dedicatory inscriptions and in the Hebrew Bible.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110301873

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9783110301878

Myths of Exile

History and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible

By: Anne Katrine Gudme,Ingrid Hjelm

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Myths of Exile

History and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible

By: Anne Katrine Gudme,Ingrid Hjelm

The Babylonian exile in 587-539 BCE is frequently presented as the main explanatory factor for the religious and literary developments found in the Hebrew Bible. The sheer number of both ‘historical’ and narrative exiles confirms that the theme of exile is of great importance in the Hebrew Bible. However, one does not do justice to the topic by restricting it to the exile in Babylon after 587 BCE. In recent years, it has become clear that there are several discrepancies between biblical and extra-biblical sources on invasion and deportation in Palestine in the 1st millennium BCE. Such discrepancy confirms that the theme of exile in the Hebrew Bible should not be viewed as an echo of a single traumatic historical event, but rather as a literary motif that is repeatedly reworked by biblical authors. Myths of Exile challenges the traditional understanding of 'the Exile' as a monolithic historical reality and instead provides a critical and comparative assessment of motifs of estrangement and belonging in the Hebrew Bible and related literature. Using selected texts as case studies, this book demonstrates how tales of exile and return can be described as a common formative narrative in the literature of the ancient Near East, a narrative that has been interpreted and used in various ways depending on the needs and cultural contexts of the interpreting community. Myths of Exile is a critical study which forms the basis for a fresh understanding of these exile myths as identity-building literary phenomena.

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Routledge

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1317501225

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Before the God in this Place for Good Remembrance

A Comparative Analysis of the Aramaic Votive Inscriptions from Mount Gerizim

By: Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme

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A Comparative Analysis of the Aramaic Votive Inscriptions from Mount Gerizim

By: Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme

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Before the God in this Place for Good Remembrance

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Before the God in this Place for Good Remembrance

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