Pioske David’s Jerusalem

Between Memory and History
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-54891-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 324 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Religion

The history of David’s Jerusalem remains one of the most contentious topics of the ancient world. This study engages with debates about the nature of this location by examining the most recent archaeological data from the site and by exploring the relationship of these remains to claims made about David’s royal center in biblical narrative. Daniel Pioske provides a detailed reconstruction of the landscape and lifeways of early 10th century BCE Jerusalem, connected in biblical tradition to the figure of David. He further explores how late Iron Age (the Book of Samuel-Kings) and late Persian/early Hellenistic (the Book of Chronicles) Hebrew literary cultures remembered David’s Jerusalem within their texts, and how the remains and ruins of this site influenced the memories of those later inhabitants who depicted David’s Jerusalem within the biblical narrative. By drawing on both archaeological data and biblical writings, Pioske calls attention to the breaks and ruptures between a remembered past and a historical one, and invites the reader to understand David’s Jerusalem as more than a physical location, but also as a place of memory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pioske, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Place, Memory, and the History of David’s Jerusalem 1. Between Memory and Modernity: Retracing the Traces of an Ancient Past 2. David’s Jerusalem in Samuel-Kings: Commemorating a Davidic Past 3. David’s Jerusalem in The Book of Chronicles: Redressing the Past 4. David’s Jerusalem: The Early 10th Century BCE, Part I. An Agrarian Community 5. David’s Jerusalem: The Early 10th Century BCE, Part II. Stronghold and Ideological Apparatus 6. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel D. Pioske is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA. After receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, his research has centered on the Iron Age history of the southern Levant and those literary cultures who first began to formulate and compose the biblical narrative.