Reconstructing the Intellectual Discourse of Ancient Yehud
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3942715 |
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| Authors | Ehud Ben Zvi (0000-0001-8600-0949, University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-23 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4298 • E-ISSN: 2042-0587 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0008429809355118 |
| OpenAlex | W2137207226 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
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. This article demonstrates that, despite all their differences, both sets of works shared a common, ideological, generative grammar. Certain issues tended to be raised, particular sets of ways of approaching and answering them to be used, and conceptually similar metaphors, and comparable fears and hopes, to shape the imagination of the literati for whom and by whom these books, with all their differences, were composed. This article then discusses the historical implications of this basically shared discourse and the ways in which a background of general discursive similarity makes instances of dissimilarity even more salient. A few examples of the latter are raised
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| Highly cited | No |
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