Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions (1997 Scott), edited volume

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Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions (1997) is a volume edited by James M. Scott.

Abstract

"The exiles of Israel and Judah cast a long shadow over the biblical text and the whole subsequent history of Judaism. Scholars have long recognized the importance of the theme of exile for the Hebrew Bible. Indeed, critical study of the Old Testament has, at least since Wellhausen, been dominated by the Babylonian exile of Judah. In 586 BC, several factors, including the destruction of Jerusalem, the cessation of the sacrificial cult and of the monarchy, and the experience of the exile, began to cause a transformation of Israelite religion which supplied the contours of the larger Judaic framework within which the various forms of Judaism, including the early Christian movement, developed. Given the importance of the exile to the development of Judaism and Christianity even to the present day, this volume delves into the conceptions of exile which contributed to that development during the formative period."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1997 (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 56).

Table of contents

Babylonian and Persian periods

• Reassessing the historical and sociological impact of the Babylonian Exile (597/587-539 BCE) / Daniel Smith-Christopher
• The Exile and canon formation / James A. Sanders
• Deportation and diasporic discourses in the prophetic literature / Robert P. Carroll

Greco-Roman period.

• Exile in Jewish apocalyptic literature / James C. VanderKam
• Exile and the Dead Sea Scrolls / Martin G. Abegg
• Exile and return in Jubilees / Betsy Halpern-Amaru
• The concept of exile in Josephus / Louis H. Feldman
• Exile and the self-understanding of diaspora Jews in the Greco-Roman period / James M. Scott
• Exile and return as the history of Judaism / Jacob Neusner
• Salvific exile in the Isaiah Targum / Bruce D. Chilton
• The idea of exile in early rabbinic midrash / Gary G. Porton
• Notions of exile, subjugation and return in rabbinic literature / Chaim Milikowsky

Early Christianity.

• Aspects of exile and restoration in the proclamation of Jesus and the Gospels / Craig A. Evans
• Paul and the exile of Israel in Galatians 3-4 / Scott J. Hafemann

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