“Historical” Israel and “biblical” Israel, or ethnicity as a symbol
Updated by:
Shiran Shevah
Research notes:
SHS/not checked/30/10/2016
Reference type:
Book section
year:
2016
Full title:
“Historical” Israel and “biblical” Israel, or ethnicity as a symbol
Journal / Book Title || Series Title:
Finding Myth and History in the Bible: Scholarship, Scholars and Errors
Editor(s):
Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano
Jim West
Chiara Peri
Place of Publication:
Sheffield
Publisher:
Equinox Publishing
Pages:
209-222
Work type:
Essay/Monograph
Abstract:
The "biblical" identity of Ancient Israel is a historiographical construction, based on a particular self-consciousness of a people ethnically distinct from the others. This idea of ethnicity is therefore symbolic. We would try to trace the origin of such ethnical identity in some texts of the jewish apocryphal (or deuterocanonical) literature (Ben Sira, Tobit, Judith, Esther) and in the "national" historiography of some Judeo-Hellenistic authors.
Label:
21/11/2016
Record number:
102 232