Benedikt Hensel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1241846 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benedikt Hensel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benedikt |
| FAMILY NAME | Hensel |
| SIGNATURE | HENSEL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Zürich, Theologische Fakultät, Lehrstuhl für Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft und Frühjüdische Religionsgeschichte Kirchgasse 9, CH-8001 Zürich/Schweiz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6608-2676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fear, Fear of God, God-Fearers
Die Beiträger dieses Bandes widmen sich der Bedeutung von Angst und Gottesfurcht im antiken Judentum und im frühen Christentum. Sie verbinden philologische, historische und anthropologische Ansätze, um zu zeigen, wie Emotionen, insbesondere Angst, religiöse Praktiken, soziale Dynamiken und Konzepte von Selbst und Gemeinschaft formten. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Untersuchung biblischer Texte, rabbinischer Literatur und frühchristlich…
The Administration of Samaria in the Persian Period
From the extant sources, it is obvious that shortly after the Assyrian conquest, the former kingdom of Israel was incorporated into the Assyrian imperial administration as a province with the city of Samaria as its capital. Unfortunately, we have practically no documentation available on the administration of the province in the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods. This picture changes dramatically under Persian rule. Beginning with the late …
Israel, Judah, and Neighboring Groups in the Books of Samuel
The contributors to this volume investigate the portrayal of Israel's and Judah's relations with neighboring groups in the books of Samuel (including the Philistines, Amalekites, Edomites, Arameans, and Gibeonites) from both literary and historical perspectives. In doing so, they bring together multiple methodological approaches to the topic, including analyses of the structure, ideological content, and compositional development of the narrative …
Transjordan and the Southern Levant
Previous research has treated the Transjordanian regions - from the early Iron Age I to the Hellenistic period - as a geographically and/or culturally marginal area. The contributors of this volume demonstrate that the Transjordan was integrated beyond the Southern Levant into the Mediterranean, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. They deal with the unresolved questions surrounding Transjordan and its influence on religious and cultural history. In particula…
Social Groups behind Biblical Traditions
Is the Hebrew Bible purely a product of Jerusalem or were there various social groups who each played a role in its development during the Second Temple period? This is the guiding question of the present volume, which fills a crucial gap in recent research by combining current redactional and text-historical analysis of the Hebrew Bible with the latest results pertaining to the pluriform social and religious shape of early Judaism.
Social Groups Behind Biblical Traditions
Is the Hebrew Bible purely a product of Jerusalem or were there various social groups who each played a role in its development during the Second Temple period? This is the guiding question of the present volume, which fills a crucial gap in recent research by combining current literary-historical, redactional and text-historical analysis of the Hebrew Bible with the latest results pertaining to the pluriform social and religious shape of early J…
The History of the Jacob Cycle (Genesis 25-35)
Untangling the growth of the Jacob Cycle and the historical realities behind it is of enduring interest, as the studies on the Jacob Cycle in recent years indicate. It seems to be one of the oldest origin traditions preserved in the Hebrew Bible. In spite of the previous consensus in the field, new studies and current archaeological findings have scrutinized several of the previous »certainties«, leading to a debate on whether some of the basic a…
Torah, Temple, Land
The present volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in October 2018 at Humboldt University Berlin. The articles reflect the different categories of describing Judaism of the Second Temple Period in view of their sustainability in characterising an ancient religious community in different historical situations and discuss relevant (re)constructions of ancient Judaism in the history of scholarship. Since the Persian period, ancient Jud…
Gottesfürchtige Seeleute (Jon 1,5–16) und bußfertige Feinde (Jon 3,5–10)
Der Beitrag analysiert die Konversion der Seeleute in Jon 1,5–16 und die Umkehr der Niniviten in Jon 3,5–19 und vergleicht sie miteinander. Hensel kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass zwei unterschiedliche Modelle der Zuordnung zum antiken Judentum im Rahmen dieser prophetischen Lehrerzählung vorgestellt und im Kontext vielfältiger Applikationen von Schrifttraditionen (insbesondere Joel und Jer; sowie der Gnadenformel Ex 34,6 f.) verhandelt werden. Im Hin…
Yahwistic Diversity and the Hebrew Bible
The underlying perspective of the present volume contributes to the recent historical debate on Yahwistic diversity in the Persian and the Hellenistic periods. A broad variety of different Yahwistic (and not necessarily Jewish) groups existed inside and outside Judah during the sixth to first century BCE, for example in Egypt (Elephantine/Jeb and Alexandria), Babylonia (al-Yahudu), Samaria, and Idumea. The main objective of the volume lies in the…
Neue Horizonte im Alten eröffnen? Biblisch-theologische und hermeneutische Beobachtungen zu Mt 1–2
Der Beitrag analysiert das in den beiden Eingangskapiteln des MtEv besonders dichte alttestamentliche Verweissystem: Welche Textbereiche aus dem Alten Testament werden als Subtexte eingespielt; welche theologischen Grundlinien damit fortgesetzt? Welche Rückschlüsse lassen sich hieraus auf eine „alttestamentliche Hermeneutik“ des Matthäus ziehen? Drei biblisch-theologische Themenkomplexe werden exemplarisch besprochen: (1.) die Einordnung Jesu in …
Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles-New Insights into the Early History of Samari(t)an-Jewish Relations
This article addresses the way the book of Ezra-Nehemiah on one hand and Chronicles on the other reflect the relationship between Samaria and Judah in the postexilic period. With regard to Ezra-Nehemiah, the focus is placed on Ezra 4:1-5, 6-23, 24, which evokes a particular image of the nature of the relationship between Samaria and Judah within the report of the construction of the temple in Ezra 1-6 that can function paradigmatically for the bo…
Juda und Samaria
Benedikt Hensel präsentiert im vorliegenden Werk neue Erkenntnisse zur Entstehung des Alten Testaments und des Judentums. Ausgehend von der samarischen JHWH-Gemeinde vom Garizim (die später als »Samaritaner« bezeichnet wird) untersucht Hensel deren Verhältnis zu ihrem judäischen Pendant in nach-exilischer Zeit (6.-1. Jh.v.Chr.) anhand sämtlicher derzeit zur Verfügung stehender archäologischer, ikonographischer, numismatischer und epigraphischer Q…
Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles-New Insights into the Early History of Samari(t)an-Jewish Relations
This article addresses the way the book of Ezra-Nehemiah on one hand and Chronicles on the other reflect the relationship between Samaria and Judah in the postexilic period. With regard to Ezra-Nehemiah, the focus is placed on Ezra 4:1-5, 6-23, 24, which evokes a particular image of the nature of the relationship between Samaria and Judah within the report of the construction of the temple in Ezra 1-6 that can function paradigmatically for the bo…
Juda und Samaria
Benedikt Hensel präsentiert im vorliegenden Werk neue Erkenntnisse zur Entstehung des Alten Testaments und des Judentums. Ausgehend von der samarischen JHWH-Gemeinde vom Garizim (die später als »Samaritaner« bezeichnet wird) untersucht Hensel deren Verhältnis zu ihrem judäischen Pendant in nach-exilischer Zeit (6.-1. Jh.v.Chr.) anhand sämtlicher derzeit zur Verfügung stehender archäologischer, ikonographischer, numismatischer und epigraphischer Q…
Yahwistic Diversity and the Hebrew Bible
The underlying perspective of the present volume contributes to the recent historical debate on Yahwistic diversity in the Persian and the Hellenistic periods. A broad variety of different Yahwistic (and not necessarily Jewish) groups existed inside and outside Judah during the sixth to first century BCE, for example in Egypt (Elephantine/Jeb and Alexandria), Babylonia (al-Yahudu), Samaria, and Idumea. The main objective of the volume lies in the…
Neue Horizonte im Alten eröffnen? Biblisch-theologische und hermeneutische Beobachtungen zu Mt 1–2
Der Beitrag analysiert das in den beiden Eingangskapiteln des MtEv besonders dichte alttestamentliche Verweissystem: Welche Textbereiche aus dem Alten Testament werden als Subtexte eingespielt; welche theologischen Grundlinien damit fortgesetzt? Welche Rückschlüsse lassen sich hieraus auf eine „alttestamentliche Hermeneutik“ des Matthäus ziehen? Drei biblisch-theologische Themenkomplexe werden exemplarisch besprochen: (1.) die Einordnung Jesu in …
Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles-New Insights into the Early History of Samari(t)an-Jewish Relations
This article addresses the way the book of Ezra-Nehemiah on one hand and Chronicles on the other reflect the relationship between Samaria and Judah in the postexilic period. With regard to Ezra-Nehemiah, the focus is placed on Ezra 4:1-5, 6-23, 24, which evokes a particular image of the nature of the relationship between Samaria and Judah within the report of the construction of the temple in Ezra 1-6 that can function paradigmatically for the bo…
The History of the Jacob Cycle (Genesis 25-35)
Untangling the growth of the Jacob Cycle and the historical realities behind it is of enduring interest, as the studies on the Jacob Cycle in recent years indicate. It seems to be one of the oldest origin traditions preserved in the Hebrew Bible. In spite of the previous consensus in the field, new studies and current archaeological findings have scrutinized several of the previous »certainties«, leading to a debate on whether some of the basic a…
Torah, Temple, Land
The present volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in October 2018 at Humboldt University Berlin. The articles reflect the different categories of describing Judaism of the Second Temple Period in view of their sustainability in characterising an ancient religious community in different historical situations and discuss relevant (re)constructions of ancient Judaism in the history of scholarship. Since the Persian period, ancient Jud…
Gottesfürchtige Seeleute (Jon 1,5–16) und bußfertige Feinde (Jon 3,5–10)
Der Beitrag analysiert die Konversion der Seeleute in Jon 1,5–16 und die Umkehr der Niniviten in Jon 3,5–19 und vergleicht sie miteinander. Hensel kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass zwei unterschiedliche Modelle der Zuordnung zum antiken Judentum im Rahmen dieser prophetischen Lehrerzählung vorgestellt und im Kontext vielfältiger Applikationen von Schrifttraditionen (insbesondere Joel und Jer; sowie der Gnadenformel Ex 34,6 f.) verhandelt werden. Im Hin…
Social Groups behind Biblical Traditions
Is the Hebrew Bible purely a product of Jerusalem or were there various social groups who each played a role in its development during the Second Temple period? This is the guiding question of the present volume, which fills a crucial gap in recent research by combining current redactional and text-historical analysis of the Hebrew Bible with the latest results pertaining to the pluriform social and religious shape of early Judaism.
Social Groups Behind Biblical Traditions
Is the Hebrew Bible purely a product of Jerusalem or were there various social groups who each played a role in its development during the Second Temple period? This is the guiding question of the present volume, which fills a crucial gap in recent research by combining current literary-historical, redactional and text-historical analysis of the Hebrew Bible with the latest results pertaining to the pluriform social and religious shape of early J…
Transjordan and the Southern Levant
Previous research has treated the Transjordanian regions - from the early Iron Age I to the Hellenistic period - as a geographically and/or culturally marginal area. The contributors of this volume demonstrate that the Transjordan was integrated beyond the Southern Levant into the Mediterranean, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. They deal with the unresolved questions surrounding Transjordan and its influence on religious and cultural history. In particula…
The Administration of Samaria in the Persian Period
From the extant sources, it is obvious that shortly after the Assyrian conquest, the former kingdom of Israel was incorporated into the Assyrian imperial administration as a province with the city of Samaria as its capital. Unfortunately, we have practically no documentation available on the administration of the province in the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods. This picture changes dramatically under Persian rule. Beginning with the late …
Israel, Judah, and Neighboring Groups in the Books of Samuel
The contributors to this volume investigate the portrayal of Israel's and Judah's relations with neighboring groups in the books of Samuel (including the Philistines, Amalekites, Edomites, Arameans, and Gibeonites) from both literary and historical perspectives. In doing so, they bring together multiple methodological approaches to the topic, including analyses of the structure, ideological content, and compositional development of the narrative …
Fear, Fear of God, God-Fearers
Die Beiträger dieses Bandes widmen sich der Bedeutung von Angst und Gottesfurcht im antiken Judentum und im frühen Christentum. Sie verbinden philologische, historische und anthropologische Ansätze, um zu zeigen, wie Emotionen, insbesondere Angst, religiöse Praktiken, soziale Dynamiken und Konzepte von Selbst und Gemeinschaft formten. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Untersuchung biblischer Texte, rabbinischer Literatur und frühchristlich…
Biblical Studies and Interpretation (10 works) · Old Testament (9 works) · Antiquity (7 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (6 works) · Art (6 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Biblical studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Religious Studies (4 works)