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{en} Danilo Verde and Benedetta Rossi, eds. Cultural hegemony, ideological conflicts, and power in Second Temple Judaism (Leuven: Peeters, 2024).

Abstract

"The literary texts of ancient Israel and early Judaism are infused with ideologies and reflect various social, economic, religious, and political agendas. On the one hand hegemonic and counter-hegemonic ideologies shaped the production of literary texts, on the other hand literary texts helped cement or at least spread such ideologies and worldviews. This volume explores the relationship between authoritative texts, ideologies, and social, religious, and political struggles in Second Temple Judaism by examining both the Hebrew Bible and other literary products of Second Temple Judaism, such as the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Septuagint, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The volume focuses on a series of case studies and aims to shed light on how literary production in Second Temple Judaism is simultaneously the effect and medium of social struggles for hegemony. The first section of the volume focuses on the texts of the Hebrew Bible and the Samaritan Pentateuch, explicitly engaging with Antonio Gramsci's concept of cultural hegemony. The second section explores the broad themes of power dynamics, conflict, and different types of hegemonies." --

Contents

Introduction. With an Excursus on the Gramscian category of cultural hegemony / Danilo Verde -- I. Biblical scholarship in dialogue with Gramsci's concept of cultural hegemony -- Asymmetrical hierarchical systems and cultural hegemony among the early Second Temple literati / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Taxes or tithes? Deuteronomy's approach to financing cultural hegemony / Philippe Guillaume -- Unraveling priestly hegemony: Counter-hegemonic voices in the Book of Joshua / Benedetta Rossi -- How to downsize a hero: The Mosaic portrait of the first King of Israel / Daniela de Panfilis -- "The female will encompass the man" (Jer 31,22): Utopia and counter-hegemonic representations of gender in ancient Israel / Danielo Verde -- Creating law: Hegemony sectarianism, and the Gerizim Commandment / Megan Turton -- II. Related issues: Ideology, conflict, and power dynamics -- Creating Israelite cultural hegemony in the Persian period: Shared strategies and points of dispute among the literati / Diana Edelman -- Legitimate or legitimized defense? Signs of a political debate within the Book of Judges / Paola Mollo -- "With our tongue we will prevail!" (Ps 12,5): Cultural struggle, prayer, and the words of the enemies in Psalm 12 / Marco Pavan -- The Septuagint and linguistic hegemony / Joshua Alfaro -- The Septuagint translation of Prov 17,14: A plea for peaceful conflict resolution in society? / Eberhard Bons -- The Septuagint version of Prov 28,16: A critique of arbitrary power? / Daniela Scialabba -- 'Sie werden ausgerottet aus der Mitte der Gemeinde der Einung': Die Gemeinde und ihre Feinde in der Auslegung von Psalm 37 in 4QqPsa̳ / Christina Kumpmann.

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