Israel and Empire: A Postcolonial History of Israel and Early JudaismThis book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Israel and Empire introduces students to the history, literature, and theology of the Hebrew Bible and texts of early Judaism, enabling them to read these texts through the lens of postcolonial interpretation. This approach should allow students to recognize not only how cultural and socio-political forces shaped ancient Israel and the worldviews of the early Jews but also the impact of imperialism on modern readings of the Bible. Perdue and Carter cover a broad sweep of history, from 1300 BCE to 72 CE, including the late Bronze age, Egyptian imperialism, Israel's entrance into Canaan, the Davidic-Solomonic Empire, the Assyrian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, the Greek Empire, the Maccabean Empire, and Roman rule. Additionally the authors show how earlier examples of imperialism in the Ancient Near East provide a window through which to see the forces and effects of imperialism in modern history. |
Contents
Empires Colonies and Postcolonial Interpretation | 1 |
I Sources of Social Power | 2 |
III The Discourse of Resistance | 3 |
1 Major Considerations in the Analysis of Imperial Rule and Postcolonial Criticism | 5 |
II The Subaltern and Economic Exploitation | 7 |
III Racism in the Ideology and Practice of Imperialism | 8 |
The Subverting of Western Stereotypes of the East | 9 |
V The Location of Culture | 15 |
III Judah as a Persian Colony | 117 |
Unity and Diversity in Judaism in the Persian Empire | 127 |
5 JudeaIsrael under the Greek Empires | 129 |
I Alexander the Macedonian 336323 his Conquests and Successors Diadochi | 135 |
II Ptolemaic Rule and JudeaIsrael | 147 |
III Seleucid Rule of JudeaIsrael 200175 BCE | 172 |
IV Antiochus IV Epiphanes 175164 BCE | 184 |
V Post164 BCE Rededication of the Temple and Independence | 210 |
VI Can the Subaltern Speak? | 19 |
VII Postcolonial Historiography | 22 |
VIII The Imperial Metanarrative | 30 |
IX Colonial Resistance | 32 |
X The Diaspora | 33 |
2 The Assyrian Empire the Conquest of Israel and the Colonization of Judah | 37 |
II The Metanarrative of the Assyrian Empire | 40 |
The Example of Hosea | 49 |
IV The Colonization of Judah and Assyrian Domination | 63 |
3 Judah under the NeoBabylonian Empire | 69 |
II The Babylonian Metanarrative of Empire | 72 |
III Jewish Communities during the Exile | 76 |
Jeremiah and Second Isaiah | 87 |
4 The Persian Empire and the Colony of Judah | 107 |
II Persian Culture and the Imperial Metanarrative | 109 |
6 JudeaIsrael under the Roman Empire | 217 |
I Historical Introduction | 223 |
II The Metanarrative of the Roman Empire | 227 |
Roman Religious Acts and Imperial Cult Observance | 235 |
IV Imperial and Provincial Rule | 241 |
V Economics | 251 |
VI JudeanIsraelite Religion | 263 |
VII Material Culture | 273 |
VIII Decolonizing the Mind | 279 |
IX Conclusion | 291 |
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Israel and Empire: A Postcolonial History of Israel and Early Judaism Leo G. Perdue,Aliou Niang,Warren Carter No preview available - 2015 |
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