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Title Centres and Peripheries in the Early Second Temple Period
Published Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2016

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Series Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 0940-4155 ; 108
Forschungen zum Alten Testament ; 108.
Contents Cover; Preface; Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; Ehud Ben Zvi: Introduction; Ehud Ben Zvi: Introductory Centre/Core-Periphery Considerations and the Case of Interplaying of Rigid and Flexible Constructions of Centre and Periphery among the Literati of the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Period; A. Basic Considerations about the Model/s; 1. Processes of Relative Hierarchical Branching; 2. The Study of Inner Core or Peripheral Complexity and its Own Processes; 3. Centering and Peripheralizing Tendencies and Processes
4. Multiple and Complementary Systems of Centre and Periphery involving the Same Partners5. Matters of Othering (Including Gendering); B. From Theory to Practical Examples; C. Reconstructing Some of the Rulesfor Constructing Centre and Periphery Axes within the Discourse of the Yehudite Literati; Laurie E. Pearce: Looking for Judeans in Babylonia's Core and Periphery; A. Center/Core and Periphery: A Heuristic Model; B.A Top-Down Model; C. How Babylonians Expressed a Notion of Core and Periphery; D. Identifying Peripherals in the Corpus; E. Peripherals Supporting Core Economic Activities
1. Sippar2. Susa; 3. Judeans in the Rural Economy: The Land Behind Nippur; F. Summary; Bob Becking: Centre, Periphery, and Interference: Notes on the "Passover/Mazzot"-Letter from Elephantine; A. The Mappa Mundi Perspective; B.A Social Science Model; C. Elephantine; 1. An Important but Enigmatic Document; 2. A few Remarks on the Translation; 3. General Remarks; D. Sender and Address; E. Centre and Periphery as two Complex Systems; F. Interference; G. Passover and Mazzot at Elephantine; H. Conclusion
Sylvie Honigman: Intercultural Exchanges in the Hellenistic East: The Respective Roles of Temples, Royal Offices, Courts, and GymnasiaA. Introduction; B. The Gymnasion as an Institution for Athletic and Military Training; 1. Gymnasia in Greek Cities; 2. Gymnasia outside the Greek Cities; 3. Jason's Gymnasion in Jerusalem (2 Maccabees 4:7-15); C. Primary Greek Education for Greek and Egyptian Boys in Ptolemaic Egypt; 1. Greek Schools vs. Egyptian Temples: The Dual Institutional Setting; 2. Content: Moral Instruction in Greek and Egyptian Primary Educations
D. The Higher Education of Royal Officials in Ptolemaic Egypt1. The Social Identity of the Native Elites who learned Greek; 2. Training Officials: Apprenticeship in the Administrative Offices (and not "Higher Education"); E. From the Social Location of Texts to their Trans-Network Circulation within a Society; F. The Circulation of Books and Ideas across Boundaries: The Royal Court as the Institution for Intercultural Encounters; 1. Questioning the Model of Itinerant and Migrant Literati; 2. Strootman's "Outer Court"; 3. The Outer Court as a "Multiple" Contact Zone?; 4. Devolution
Summary What can "centre and periphery" frameworks, in all their present diversity and in their various "re-conceptualizations," contribute to the study of the early Second Temple period? The essays in this volume address this question through the prism of the location of Jerusalem, diasporic communities, the literary history of some texts, gender, and more. - back of book
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Subject Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) -- Congresses
SUBJECT Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) fast
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses
Bible. Old Testament fast
Bibel Altes Testament gnd
Subject Judaism -- Post-exilic period (Judaism)
Exegese
Frühjudentum
Judentum
Kult
Peripherie
Tempel
Zentrum
Zentrum-Peripherie-Modell
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Levin, Christoph, 1950-
Ben Zvi, Ehud, 1951-
ISBN 3161550250
9783161550256