Louis C Jonker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1072197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louis C Jonker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louis C |
| FAMILY NAME | Jonker |
| SIGNATURE | JONKER L C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8181-0384 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aramaic, Multilingualism and Imperialism in the Ancient Middle East of the First Millennium BCE
1
Scribal Discourses in Second Temple Biblical Literature
The contributors to this volume investigate the scribal communities and literary practices that shaped the formation of the Hebrew Bible during the late Achaemenid-Persian and early Hellenistic periods, with particular attention to scribal activity in Yehud/Judea and the broader southern Levant. Drawing on redaction criticism, intertextual analysis, and socio-historical contextualization, the contributors collectively advance the thesis that bibl…
Reading Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah amid Early Jewish Literature
Where and When? The Chronicler’s Adaptive Usage of "Space" and "Time
The writers of Chronicles are famous for their creative use of the different Vorlagen (available sources) at their disposal. In their use of some Pentateuch (mainly genealogies) and Deuteronomistic (mainly Samuel–Kings) materials, changes in space and time are often used as rhetorical devices. Examples of these will be explored to come to a better understanding of the writers’ creative use of space and time in the late Persian and early Hellenist…
Multilingualism in Ancient Contexts
Multilingualism remains a thorny issue in many contexts, be it cultural, political, or educational. Debates and discourses on this issue in contexts of diversity (particularly in multicultural societies, but also in immigration situations) are often conducted with present-day communicational and educational needs in mind, or with political and identity agendas. This is nothing new. There are a vast number of witnesses from the ancient West-Asian …
Crossing Boundaries. The Transformative Potential of Intercultural Bible Reading in Secular / Post-Secular Contexts
Intercultural biblical hermeneutics is a fairly recent development in biblical scholarship in general. It emphasises that biblical interpretation almost always takes place in contexts where an array of cultural values and beliefs determine the outcome of the interpretative process. Although this branch of biblical hermeneutics emerged from the need to reflect theoretically on how Christians from different socio-cultural and socio-economic context…
Playing with Peace
It is well-known that the notions of peace, rest and order belonged to the royal Achaemenid ideology, particularly from the time of Darius I onwards. This can be witnessed in Achaemenid architecture, iconography and royal inscriptions. However, although the relations between the Persian Empire and the Greek city-states were never completely peaceful, the diplomatic relations between Persia and particularly Sparta emphasised the value and importan…
Numbers and Chronicles
This article investigates the possible terminological and thematic relationships between the books of Numbers and Chronicles. This is done within the parameters of newer studies on Pentateuch formation, and particularly of the formation of Numbers, which date these processes in the fourth century B.C.E., thus in close temporal proximity to Chronicles. The majority view that Chronicles follows after the final reworking of Numbers is accepted here,…
Family Genealogies and Religious Ideology
The Chronicler starts his historiographical work with nine chapters of family and name lists. Lay readers of the book often skip these “boring” chapters to get to the “real” narrative, starting with the death of Saul in chapter 10. Scholars have indicated, however, that these genealogies actually form a portal (“Vorhalle”) through which the Chronicler’s historiography should be approached. In the genealogies, we already find the basic themes of t…
What was Considered to be Apostasy by the Chronicler, and how does it Relate to Deuteronomic Law
It is well-known that the Chronicler used very specific terminology to give expression to what was considered to be apostasy. The term מעל is very prominent in this regard (although it never occurs in the Vorlage of Samuel-Kings, and only once in Deut 32:51), as well as the expression “not to seek (with דרש or בקש) Yahweh” (which does occur frequently in Deuteronomy and Samuel-Kings). The present paper will investigate these occurrences in Chroni…
Defining All-Israel in Chronicles
In this book, Louis C. Jonker considers more sophisticated and nuanced models for applying the heuristic lens of »identity« in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible book of Chronicles. Not only does he investigate the potential and limitations of different sociological models for this purpose, but the author also provides a more nuanced analysis of the socio-historical context of origin of late Persian-period biblical literature by distinguishin…
Introduction
Huldah s oracle
Scholars of Chronicles normally emphasise that the Chronicler used typical words and phrases in those parts that belong to his Sondergut. Amongst these are phrases like to humble yourself , to seek Yahweh , and not to forsake Yahweh . The writer s typical changes to the burial notices of the royal narratives also belong in this category. Something which is often overlooked, however, is that many of these features already occur in the narrative ab…
Texts, Contexts and Readings in Postexilic Literature
Periods of socio-historical change often prompt renewed interest in history-writing. Interest in the past is then driven by processes of identity negotiation which facilitate a new orientation in changed circumstances. The Hebrew Bible is an excellent example, containing historiographical writings from different socio-historical periods. Dramatic socio-political and socio-religious changes took place from the sixth to the fourth centuries B.C.E. …
The rhetorics of finding a new identity in a multi-religious and multi-ethnic society
Scholars generally agree that the Books of Chronicles are the products of certain Israelite (Levitical) groups in the Persian province of Jehud who struggled with the dissonance between their older historical and theological traditions on the one hand, and their present reality on the other hand. Within the totally different conditions under Persian rule (a multi-religious and multi-ethnic society) they had to find a new identity. The primary foc…
Communities of faith as texts in the process of biblical interpretation
In this article the author illustrates that the relationship between the Bible and the Church could also be described from the post-modern perspective of intertextuality. He argues that communities of faith are texts in an all-encompassing network of textuality. However, these texts, as all other texts, are involved in clusters of related texts that show an affinity with one another. Within these clusters the related texts become more prominent a…
The rhetorics of finding a new identity in a multi-religious and multi-ethnic society
Scholars generally agree that the Books of Chronicles are the products of certain Israelite (Levitical) groups in the Persian province of Jehud who struggled with the dissonance between their older historical and theological traditions on the one hand, and their present reality on the other hand. Within the totally different conditions under Persian rule (a multi-religious and multi-ethnic society) they had to find a new identity. The primary foc…
Communities of faith as texts in the process of biblical interpretation
In this article the author illustrates that the relationship between the Bible and the Church could also be described from the post-modern perspective of intertextuality. He argues that communities of faith are texts in an all-encompassing network of textuality. However, these texts, as all other texts, are involved in clusters of related texts that show an affinity with one another. Within these clusters the related texts become more prominent a…
The rhetorics of finding a new identity in a multi-religious and multi-ethnic society
Scholars generally agree that the Books of Chronicles are the products of certain Israelite (Levitical) groups in the Persian province of Jehud who struggled with the dissonance between their older historical and theological traditions on the one hand, and their present reality on the other hand. Within the totally different conditions under Persian rule (a multi-religious and multi-ethnic society) they had to find a new identity. The primary foc…
Texts, Contexts and Readings in Postexilic Literature
Periods of socio-historical change often prompt renewed interest in history-writing. Interest in the past is then driven by processes of identity negotiation which facilitate a new orientation in changed circumstances. The Hebrew Bible is an excellent example, containing historiographical writings from different socio-historical periods. Dramatic socio-political and socio-religious changes took place from the sixth to the fourth centuries B.C.E. …
Huldah s oracle
Scholars of Chronicles normally emphasise that the Chronicler used typical words and phrases in those parts that belong to his Sondergut. Amongst these are phrases like to humble yourself , to seek Yahweh , and not to forsake Yahweh . The writer s typical changes to the burial notices of the royal narratives also belong in this category. Something which is often overlooked, however, is that many of these features already occur in the narrative ab…
Introduction
Defining All-Israel in Chronicles
In this book, Louis C. Jonker considers more sophisticated and nuanced models for applying the heuristic lens of »identity« in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible book of Chronicles. Not only does he investigate the potential and limitations of different sociological models for this purpose, but the author also provides a more nuanced analysis of the socio-historical context of origin of late Persian-period biblical literature by distinguishin…
What was Considered to be Apostasy by the Chronicler, and how does it Relate to Deuteronomic Law
It is well-known that the Chronicler used very specific terminology to give expression to what was considered to be apostasy. The term מעל is very prominent in this regard (although it never occurs in the Vorlage of Samuel-Kings, and only once in Deut 32:51), as well as the expression “not to seek (with דרש or בקש) Yahweh” (which does occur frequently in Deuteronomy and Samuel-Kings). The present paper will investigate these occurrences in Chroni…
Numbers and Chronicles
This article investigates the possible terminological and thematic relationships between the books of Numbers and Chronicles. This is done within the parameters of newer studies on Pentateuch formation, and particularly of the formation of Numbers, which date these processes in the fourth century B.C.E., thus in close temporal proximity to Chronicles. The majority view that Chronicles follows after the final reworking of Numbers is accepted here,…
Family Genealogies and Religious Ideology
The Chronicler starts his historiographical work with nine chapters of family and name lists. Lay readers of the book often skip these “boring” chapters to get to the “real” narrative, starting with the death of Saul in chapter 10. Scholars have indicated, however, that these genealogies actually form a portal (“Vorhalle”) through which the Chronicler’s historiography should be approached. In the genealogies, we already find the basic themes of t…
Multilingualism in Ancient Contexts
Multilingualism remains a thorny issue in many contexts, be it cultural, political, or educational. Debates and discourses on this issue in contexts of diversity (particularly in multicultural societies, but also in immigration situations) are often conducted with present-day communicational and educational needs in mind, or with political and identity agendas. This is nothing new. There are a vast number of witnesses from the ancient West-Asian …
Crossing Boundaries. The Transformative Potential of Intercultural Bible Reading in Secular / Post-Secular Contexts
Intercultural biblical hermeneutics is a fairly recent development in biblical scholarship in general. It emphasises that biblical interpretation almost always takes place in contexts where an array of cultural values and beliefs determine the outcome of the interpretative process. Although this branch of biblical hermeneutics emerged from the need to reflect theoretically on how Christians from different socio-cultural and socio-economic context…
Playing with Peace
It is well-known that the notions of peace, rest and order belonged to the royal Achaemenid ideology, particularly from the time of Darius I onwards. This can be witnessed in Achaemenid architecture, iconography and royal inscriptions. However, although the relations between the Persian Empire and the Greek city-states were never completely peaceful, the diplomatic relations between Persia and particularly Sparta emphasised the value and importan…
Where and When? The Chronicler’s Adaptive Usage of "Space" and "Time
The writers of Chronicles are famous for their creative use of the different Vorlagen (available sources) at their disposal. In their use of some Pentateuch (mainly genealogies) and Deuteronomistic (mainly Samuel–Kings) materials, changes in space and time are often used as rhetorical devices. Examples of these will be explored to come to a better understanding of the writers’ creative use of space and time in the late Persian and early Hellenist…
Reading Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah amid Early Jewish Literature
Aramaic, Multilingualism and Imperialism in the Ancient Middle East of the First Millennium BCE
1
Scribal Discourses in Second Temple Biblical Literature
The contributors to this volume investigate the scribal communities and literary practices that shaped the formation of the Hebrew Bible during the late Achaemenid-Persian and early Hellenistic periods, with particular attention to scribal activity in Yehud/Judea and the broader southern Levant. Drawing on redaction criticism, intertextual analysis, and socio-historical contextualization, the contributors collectively advance the thesis that bibl…
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