King Zedekiah’s Release of Slaves for the Strategic Harmony of a Besieged Jerusalem (Jer 34)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21408403 |
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| Authors | Benjamin Scolnic (0000-0002-4263-8024, Whitney Museum of American Art, corresponding author), Benjamin E Scolnic (Southern Connecticut State University Temple Beth Sholom, 1809 Whitney Ave. Hamden USA) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 135 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 278-283 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-2526 • E-ISSN: 1613-0103 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/zaw-2023-2007 |
| OpenAlex | W4376602449 |
| Language | EN |
King Zedekiah of Judah’s covenant to release Hebrew slaves during the siege of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 588/587 and Jeremiah’s idealistic denunciation of the reclaiming of those slaves in Jer 34 has been the subject of interesting scholarly debate. For all the proposed foreign and intra-Biblical parallels, the policy was purely pragmatic and can be understood as a recognizable strategy from ancient texts that recommend procedures during a siege. Therefore when the siege is temporarily lifted, the policy is reversed
Ancient history · Art · Covenant · Harmony (color) · Judaism · Literature · Parallels · Siege · Theology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Botanical Research and Chemistry · Classics · Engineering · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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