Social Groups behind Biblical Traditions

Ist die hebräische Bibel ein reines Produkt Jerusalems, oder gab es verschiedene soziale Gruppen, die während der Zeit des Zweiten Tempels jeweils eine Rolle bei ihrer Entwicklung spielten? Dies ist die Leitfrage des vorliegenden Bandes, der eine entscheidende Lücke in der neueren Forschung schließt, indem er die aktuelle redaktionelle und textgeschichtliche Analyse der hebräischen Bibel mit den neuesten Ergebnissen zur pluriformen sozialen und religiösen Gestalt des frühen Judentums verbindet.Benedikt Hensel : Introduction to the Volume Social Groups behind Biblical Traditions

Part I: Emerging Judaism, Yahwistic Plurality, and the Making of the Hebrew Bible: A Classification of the Phenomena in the Overall Context of Hebrew Bible Studies
Benedikt Hensel : Who Wrote the Bible? Understanding Redactors and Social Groups behind Biblical Traditions in the Context of Plurality within Emerging Judaism

Part II: »Inside the Land of Israel«: Different Perspectives in Handling Diversity Inside Judah and Samaria
Yigal Levin : What Did Ezra and Nehemiah Have against Mixed Marriages? − Charlotte Hempel : Yahwistic Diversity in the Land of Israel: The Contribution of the Dead Sea Scrolls − Dalit Regev/Uzi Greenfeld : The Persian Pottery from Salvage Excavations at Har Gerizim (2019–2021): Preliminary Findings − Dany Nocquet : 1 Kgs 20 and 22, a Writing by a Prophetic Narrator? A Reconsideration − Magnar Kartveit : The Attitude towards the Northerners in the Book of Chronicles − Bartosz Adamczewski : Othniel and the Unfaithful Concubine: Two Images of the Judean Yahwism from a Northern Perspective − Wolfgang Schütte : The »Scroll of David« – a Samaritan Name of the Book of Samuel? 2 Sam 24 and the Text History of the Jewish Books of Samuel and Kings

Part III: »Diaspora Perspectives«: Biblical Reflections on Historical Realities in Egypt, Transjordan, Babylon, and Persia
Ann-Kristin Wigand : The Judean Group of Elephantine: Reading Aramaic Literature in the Service of Achaemenid Rule − Stephen Germany : Gilead in 2 Samuel and the Discourse on Diaspora during the Persian Period – C. L. Crouch : Involuntary Migration, Strategies of Identity Construction, and Religious Diversity after 586 BCE − Kishiya Hidaka : Leviticus 26 and the Pro-Babylonian-Golah and Pro-Diaspora Redactions in the Context of Identity Formation and Conflict of Yahwistic Groups in the Persian Period − Vjatscheslav Dreier : The Theological Profile of the Masoretic Book of Esther in the Context of Diverse Yhwh Communities