Shawn W. Flynn

A Story of Yhwh

Cultural Translation and Subversive Reception in Israelite History

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Produktbeschreibung

A Story of YHWH investigates the ancient Israelite expression of their deity, and tracks why variation occurred in that expression, from the early Iron Age to the Persian period.

Produktdetails

• Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781032177250
• ISBN-10: 103217725X
• Artikelnr.: 62572725

Autorenporträt

Shawn W. Flynn received a PhD in 2012 from the University of Toronto, Canada, in Ancient Near Eastern Studies. His first book was YHWH is King, published in Vetus Testamentum Supplements (2014); he has also authored Children in Ancient Israel: The Hebrew Bible and Mesopotamia in Comparative Perspective (2018). In addition, he has edited Children in the Bible and the Ancient World: Comparative and Historical Methods in Reading Ancient Children (2019). He is currently an Associate Professor of the Hebrew Bible at St Joseph's College, University of Alberta, Canada, and Academic Dean of the College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1: Purpose and scope
Chapter 2: Competing narratives of early origins
Chapter 3: The rise of YHWH and Jerusalem on the international stage
Chapter 4: YHWH as Israel's only God: YHWH in the exilic period
Chapter 5: Persian period: the afterlives of YHWHism
Chapter 6: Conclusion and assessment
Bibliography
Index