Imagining the Other and Constructing Israelite Identity in the Early Second Temple Period (Paperback)

Abbreviations Diana V. Edelman Introduction Jeremiah W. Cataldo 1. The Other: Sociological Perspectives in a Post-Colonial Age Ehud Ben Zvi 2. 'Othering, Selfing, 'Boundarying' and 'Crossing-Boundarying' as Interwoven with Socially Shared Memories: Some Observations Diana V. Edelman 3. YHWH's Othering of Israel Kare Berge 4. Categorical Identities: 'Ethnified Otherness and Sameness'-A Tool for Understanding Boundary Negotiation in the Pentateuch? Mark G. Brett 5. Natives and Immigrants in the Social Imagination of the Holiness School Claudia V. Camp 6. Gender and Identity in the Book of Numbers Carey Walsh 7. Women on the Edge Anne-Mareike Wetter 8. Ruth-A Born-Again Israelite? One Woman's Journey through Space and Time Robert L. Cohn 9. Overcoming Otherness in the Book of Ruth Terje Stordalen 10. Imagined and Forgotten Communities: Othering in the Story of Josiah's Reform (2 Kings 23) Suzanne Gilmayr-Bucher 11. Jonah and the Other: A Discourse on Interpretative Competence Jean-Daniel Macchi 12. Denial, Deception or Force: How to Deal with Powerful Others in the Book of Esther Tamara Cohn Eskenazi 13. Imagining the Other in the Construction of Judahite Identity in Ezra-Nehemiah Tobias Funke 14. Phinehas and the Other Priests in Ben Sira and 1 Maccabees Rebecca Raphael 15. Disability, Identity, and Otherness in Persian Period Israelite Thought Anke Dorman 16. The Other Others-A Qumran Perspective on Disability Bibliography