HeBAI, Vol. 10, Issue 1: Transforming Memories of Collective Violence

Edited by Oded Lipschits, Sara Milstein, Konrad Schmid, and Jakob Wöhrle.

Five essays explore the complex ways in which collective violence was memorialized in Judean narrative traditions from the Iron Age II to the turn of the common era. - From the Table of Contents: Sonja Ammann: Second Kings 24-25 and Jeremiah 52 as Diverging and Converging Memories of the Babylonian Conquest. - Stephen Germany: Self-Defense as a 'casus belli' in Ancient Mesopotamian and Hittite Literature and in the Hebrew Bible. - Helge Bezold: Violence and Empire. Hasmonean Perspectives on Imperial Power and Collective Violence in the Book of Esther. - Julia Rhyder: Festivals and Violence in 1 and 2 Maccabees. Hanukkah and Nicanor's Day. - Sylvie Honigman: Commemorative Fictions. Athens (480 B.C.E.), Jerusalem (168 B.C.E.), and Alexandria (38 C.E.). - 96 Seiten, broschiert (HeBAI - Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel; Vol. 10 (2021), Issue 1/Mohr Siebeck 2021) Lagerspuren/some shelfwear