Ehud Ben Zvi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1029497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ehud Ben Zvi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ehud Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Zvi |
| SIGNATURE | BEN ZVI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8600-0949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 13 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Open the Gates! Exploring Futures for Us as Scholars, for Our Field, and for Our Society of Biblical Literature
We must begin an honest, wide-open, and vital conversation among us all, as a community of scholars working in the field of biblical studies and cognate areas, about how to address the severe, systemic challenges that our field/s and all the humanities and social sciences are facing now, globally and locally. We need to think together about (potentially actionable) ways to address them that lead to futures in which our academic fields, and we as …
Reading Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah amid Early Jewish Literature
This article responds to the papers included in this volume of HeBAI. In general, the article argues that it is indeed timely and important to study Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah amid early Jewish literature. It furthermore agrees that the siloing of texts based on their later reception history should be challenged. Although the various later (biblical) canons played and continue to play important roles in their relevant communities of faith, and …
Introduction to the Presidential Address
of Denver and the Iliff School of Theology.She was a college dropout, and this is her second career; one that she began in her thirties while raising her children.Tamara provides a forceful example to all those in our communities who, for a variety of reasons, have dropped out of college or are late starters.Tamara is blessed with an insatiable curiosity, a never-ending desire to learn, and, most importantly, to share what she has learned with ot…
Aufsätze/Articles. Introduction to the following three articles
From “Historical” Prophets to Prophetic Books
This essay touches on the manifold ways in which sociocultural systemic features governed the construction of individual prophets in prophetic books and the ways in which these characters were remembered. It argues the case that the shift from “historical” prophets to prophetic figures in texts and memory in contemporary research calls also for stronger attention to be paid to sociocultural ecosystems and their substantial roles in the continuous…
The Art of Bracketing Empire Out and Creating Parallel Worlds
The goal of this article is to draw attention to a seemingly strange, generative pattern that, at times and under certain conditions, has shaped socially shared worlds of imagination among subordinate groups within imperial or hierarchically asymmetric structures of power, especially among “retainer” groups who saw themselves as a “cultural elite” of the subordinate group. I am referring to a generative pattern that in a significant number of suc…
The Spread of the Ideological Concept of a (Jerusalem-Centred) Tōrâ-centred Israel beyond Yehud
The first historical attestation of the wide acceptance and development of the ideological concept of a (Jerusalem-centred) tōrâ-centred Israel outside Judah occurs in Ptolemaic Egypt. Socio-demographic features of the Judean migration to Egypt in the aftermath of the Greco-Macedonian conquest and historical contingencies in Ptolemaic Egypt facilitated the socio-cultural processes that led to this outcome. This essay opens a conversation on how a…
Tōrâ-centred Israel. When a Yehudite Concept Met Ptolemaic Egypt
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud
Centres and Peripheries in the Early Second Temple Period
What can centre and periphery frameworks, in all their present diversity and in their various re-conceptualizations, contribute to the study of the early Second Temple period? The essays in this volume address this question through the prism of the location of Jerusalem, diasporic communities, the literary history of some texts, gender, and more.
Centres and Peripheries in the Early Second Temple Period
What can "centre and periphery" frameworks, in all their present diversity and in their various "re-conceptualizations," contribute to the study of the early Second Temple period? The essays in this volume address this question through the prism of the location of Jerusalem, diasporic communities, the literary history of some texts, gender, and more. - back of book.
Memory and the City in Ancient Israel
Ancient cities served as the actual, worldly landscape populated by "material" sites of memory. Some of these sites were personal and others were directly and intentionally involved in the shaping of a collective social memory, such as palaces, temples, inscriptions, walls, and gates. Many cities were also sites of social memory in a very different way. Like Babylon, Nineveh, or Jerusalem, they served as ciphers that activated and communicated va…
The Production of Prophecy
The production of prophecy : , The production of prophecy : , کتابخانه دیجیتال و فن آوری اطلاعات دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)
Thinking of Water in the Early Second Temple Period
The Production of Prophecy
Reading and Constructing Utopias
This article is meant as an invitation to further the use of the concept of utopia as a heuristic tool among historians of ancient Israel for the purpose of reconstructing the world of ideas of the late Persian period Yehud. To do so, and given that the term "utopia" may be and has been used in different ways, it advances, first, general considerations about an heuristic, pragmatic understanding of "utopia" and "utopian images" that may be partic…
Remembering and Forgetting in Early Second Temple Judah
This volume collects revised versions of essays from a 2011 workshop on Remembering and Forgetting in Early Second Temple Judah. The authors reflect on cases of memory and forgetting as reflected in the literature that ended up in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament as well as on general issues associated with social memory in ancient Israel.
Remembering and forgetting in early Second Temple Judah
This volume collects revised versions of essays from a 2011 workshop held in Munich on Remembering and Forgetting in Early Second Temple Judah . The authors of the essays address these issues from both general methodological perspectives and through case studies emerging out or associated with a wide range of texts from the prophetic literature, the Pentateuch, the historical books, Psalms and Lamentations. All these texts share one main feature:…
Remembering and Forgetting in Early Second Temple Judah
Cultural Memory in Biblical Exegesis
The Reception and Remembrance of Abraham
This book explores the role of the biblical patriarch Abraham in the formation and use of authoritative texts in the Persian and Hellenistic periods. It reflects a conference session in 2009 focusing on Abraham as a figure of cultural memory in the literature of these periods. Cultural memory is the shared reproduction and recalling of what has been learned and retained. It also involves transformation and innovation. As a figure of memory, stori…
What Was Authoritative for Chronicles?
"The essays published here are revised versions of papers presented in 2008 and 2009 in the section devoted to Israel and the Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the Persian and Hellenistic Period at the annual meeting of the European Association of Biblical Studies. The various contributors explore what was authoritative for Chronicles and what authoritative might have meant for the Chronicler from different perspectives. The volu…
What Was Authoritative for Chronicles?
The essays published here are revised versions of papers presented in 2008 and 2009 in the section devoted to Israel and the Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the Persian and Hellenistic Period at the annual meeting of the European Association of Biblical Studies. The various contributors explore what was authoritative for Chronicles and what authoritative might have meant for the Chronicler from different perspectives. The volum…
The Concept of Exile in Ancient Israel and its Historical Contexts
In ancient Israelite literature Exile is seen as a central turning point within the course of the history of Israel. In these texts “the Exile” is a central ideological concept. It serves to explain the destruction of the monarchic polities and the social and economic disasters associated with them in terms that YHWH punished Israel/Judah for having abandoned his ways. As it develops an image of an unjust Israel, it creates one of a just deity. B…
Concept of Exile in Ancient Israel and Its Historical Contexts
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Monarchy and Religious Institutions in Israel under Jeroboam I Wesley I. Toews Atlanta
Readings in Biblical Hebrew
Ecclesiastes
The book of Chronicles
This article explores several aspects of the study of the book of Chronicles as a written document meant to be read and reread by a specific readership. First, it proposes that the book shows a more subtle, balanced and sophisticated position than the (in)famous theology of immediate, personal retribution. Second, the article deals with the book as a new historiographical work interacting in various ways with earlier works, and representing a sin…
A Palimpsest
A volume of collected essays that explores what we can learn about the producers and readers of biblical books by looking into matters of language, rhetoric, style, and ideology. What do they teach us about these literati’s world of knowledge and imagination, about the issues they had in mind and the ways they came to deal with them through authoritative literature? The book includes essays on such issues as whether linguistic theories can solve …
Palimpsest
The Concept of Exile in Ancient Israel and its Historical Contexts
In ancient Israelite literature Exile is seen as a central turning point within the course of the history of Israel. In these texts “the Exile” is a central ideological concept. It serves to explain the destruction of the monarchic polities and the social and economic disasters associated with them in terms that YHWH punished Israel/Judah for having abandoned his ways. As it develops an image of an unjust Israel, it creates one of a just deity. B…
Concept of Exile in Ancient Israel and Its Historical Contexts
Reconstructing the Intellectual Discourse of Ancient Yehud
This article deals with ways in which historians may approach the task of reconstructing the intellectual discourse of ancient Yehud, as well as the feasibility of the project as a whole. It shows, in particular, how a comparative study of implied patterns of preference that shaped two sets of works that were separate in time and differentiated by literary genre, namely the prophetic books and the Book of Chronicles, contributes to this task. Thi…
The Reception and Remembrance of Abraham
This book explores the role of the biblical patriarch Abraham in the formation and use of authoritative texts in the Persian and Hellenistic periods. It reflects a conference session in 2009 focusing on Abraham as a figure of cultural memory in the literature of these periods. Cultural memory is the shared reproduction and recalling of what has been learned and retained. It also involves transformation and innovation. As a figure of memory, stori…
What Was Authoritative for Chronicles?
"The essays published here are revised versions of papers presented in 2008 and 2009 in the section devoted to Israel and the Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the Persian and Hellenistic Period at the annual meeting of the European Association of Biblical Studies. The various contributors explore what was authoritative for Chronicles and what authoritative might have meant for the Chronicler from different perspectives. The volu…
What Was Authoritative for Chronicles?
The essays published here are revised versions of papers presented in 2008 and 2009 in the section devoted to Israel and the Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the Persian and Hellenistic Period at the annual meeting of the European Association of Biblical Studies. The various contributors explore what was authoritative for Chronicles and what authoritative might have meant for the Chronicler from different perspectives. The volum…
Remembering and Forgetting in Early Second Temple Judah
This volume collects revised versions of essays from a 2011 workshop on Remembering and Forgetting in Early Second Temple Judah. The authors reflect on cases of memory and forgetting as reflected in the literature that ended up in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament as well as on general issues associated with social memory in ancient Israel.
Remembering and forgetting in early Second Temple Judah
This volume collects revised versions of essays from a 2011 workshop held in Munich on Remembering and Forgetting in Early Second Temple Judah . The authors of the essays address these issues from both general methodological perspectives and through case studies emerging out or associated with a wide range of texts from the prophetic literature, the Pentateuch, the historical books, Psalms and Lamentations. All these texts share one main feature:…
Remembering and Forgetting in Early Second Temple Judah
Cultural Memory in Biblical Exegesis
Reading and Constructing Utopias
This article is meant as an invitation to further the use of the concept of utopia as a heuristic tool among historians of ancient Israel for the purpose of reconstructing the world of ideas of the late Persian period Yehud. To do so, and given that the term "utopia" may be and has been used in different ways, it advances, first, general considerations about an heuristic, pragmatic understanding of "utopia" and "utopian images" that may be partic…
The Production of Prophecy
The production of prophecy : , The production of prophecy : , کتابخانه دیجیتال و فن آوری اطلاعات دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)
Thinking of Water in the Early Second Temple Period
The Production of Prophecy
Centres and Peripheries in the Early Second Temple Period
What can centre and periphery frameworks, in all their present diversity and in their various re-conceptualizations, contribute to the study of the early Second Temple period? The essays in this volume address this question through the prism of the location of Jerusalem, diasporic communities, the literary history of some texts, gender, and more.
Centres and Peripheries in the Early Second Temple Period
What can "centre and periphery" frameworks, in all their present diversity and in their various "re-conceptualizations," contribute to the study of the early Second Temple period? The essays in this volume address this question through the prism of the location of Jerusalem, diasporic communities, the literary history of some texts, gender, and more. - back of book.
Memory and the City in Ancient Israel
Ancient cities served as the actual, worldly landscape populated by "material" sites of memory. Some of these sites were personal and others were directly and intentionally involved in the shaping of a collective social memory, such as palaces, temples, inscriptions, walls, and gates. Many cities were also sites of social memory in a very different way. Like Babylon, Nineveh, or Jerusalem, they served as ciphers that activated and communicated va…
Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud
The Spread of the Ideological Concept of a (Jerusalem-Centred) Tōrâ-centred Israel beyond Yehud
The first historical attestation of the wide acceptance and development of the ideological concept of a (Jerusalem-centred) tōrâ-centred Israel outside Judah occurs in Ptolemaic Egypt. Socio-demographic features of the Judean migration to Egypt in the aftermath of the Greco-Macedonian conquest and historical contingencies in Ptolemaic Egypt facilitated the socio-cultural processes that led to this outcome. This essay opens a conversation on how a…
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