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Benedikt Hensel präsentiert im vorliegenden Werk neue Erkenntnisse zur Entstehung des Alten Testaments und des Judentums. Ausgehend von der samarischen JHWH-Gemeinde vom Garizim (die später als "Samaritaner" bezeichnet wird) untersucht Hensel deren Verhältnis zu ihrem judäischen Pendant in nach-exilischer Zeit (6.-1. Jh.v.Chr.) anhand sämtlicher derzeit zur Verfügung stehender archäologischer, ikonographischer, numismatischer und epigraphischer Quellen aus der Region Samaria. Zugleich wertet er die literarischen Zeugnisse der alttestamentlichen und späteren jüdischen Traditionen aus, namentlich Esra-Nehemia, die Chronik und 2 Kön 17. Die dabei aufgezeigten religionssoziologischen und -politischen Entwicklungen in Palästina lassen den Schluss zu, dass im nach-exilischen Palästina zwei jahwistische Großgruppen in Juda und Samaria parallel nebeneinander existierten, die miteinander im Austausch standen. Neu ist vor allem die Erkenntnis, dass die Kontakte beider Gruppen entgegen der derzeitigen Mehrheitsmeinung ohne dezidiert politische oder religiöse Konflikte verliefen. Der Autor zeigt so, in welch entscheidendem Maße die samarische Gemeinde auf die formative Periode des Judentums in literarhistorischem und theologiegeschichtlichem Sinne Einfluss hat und wie die spätere Geschichtsschreibung diesen Einfluss zurückdrängte.Diese Arbeit wurde mit dem Hauptpreis der Armin Schmitt Stiftung für biblische Textforschung 2018 ausgezeichnet.

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Untangling the growth of the Jacob Cycle and the historical realities behind it is of enduring interest, as the studies on the Jacob Cycle in recent years indicate. It seems to be one of the oldest origin traditions preserved in the Hebrew Bible. In spite of the previous consensus in the field, new studies and current archaeological findings have scrutinized several of the previous "certainties", leading to a debate on whether some of the basic assumptions should be modified or even rejected.This volume comprises seven articles from renowned international specialists in the field that offer comprehensive insights into new approaches and current research questions. The unique perspective lays in its combining of literary, archaeological, and historical approaches in order to understand and to evaluate the historical realities behind the Jacob Cycle and its traditions.

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Is the Hebrew Bible purely a product of Jerusalem or were there various social groups who each played a role in its development during the Second Temple period? This is the guiding question of the present volume, which fills a crucial gap in recent research by combining current literary-historical, redactional and text-historical analysis of the Hebrew Bible with the latest results pertaining to the pluriform social and religious shape of early Judaism. For the first time, the thirteen articles in this volume address the phenomenon of religious plurality by bringing together archaeological, (religious-) historical, and literary-critical approaches. The articles by internationally renowned scholars cover the panorama of currently known social groups of Yahwistic character and the impact of this phenomenon on the making of the Hebrew Bible - from the Persian period to the time of Qumran.

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The underlying perspective of the present volume contributes to the recent historical debate on Yahwistic diversity in the Persian and the Hellenistic periods. A broad variety of different Yahwistic (and not necessarily Jewish) groups existed inside and outside Judah during the sixth to first century BCE, for example in Egypt (Elephantine/Jeb and Alexandria), Babylonia (al-Yahudu), Samaria, and Idumea.The main objective of the volume lies in the literary-historical implications of this diversity: How did these groups or their interactions with one another influence the formation of the Hebrew Bible as well as its complex textual transmission? This perspective has not been sufficiently pursued in the more religious and historically oriented research before.The volume comprises thirteen articles by renowned international specialists in the field, which aim at closing this gap in the scholarly discussion.

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