Hunt for Ancient Israel

Cynthia Shafer-Elliott is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible & Archaeology at Jessup University. Kristin Joachimsen is Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, MFNorwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society. Ehud Ben Zvi is a Professor Emeritus in the department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. Pauline A. Viviano is an Associate Professor Emerita of Theology at Loyola University Chicago where she taught for thirty-five years.

• INTRODUCTIONCynthia Shafer-Elliott, Kristin Joachimsen, Ehud Ben Zvi andPauline Viviano1. THE COVENANT OF CIRCUMCISION (GEN 17) AS ANIDENTITY MARKER OF NASCENT JUDAISMThomas Römer, University of Lausanne2. PAIN, GAIN, OR BOTH? CIRCUMCISION, TRAUMA, AND(R)EMASCULATION IN POST-EXILIC ISRAELAnne-Mareike Schol-Wetter, Dutch Bible Society3. REMEMBERING THE ROLES OF MOTHER, WIVES ANDDAUGHTER IN THE FORMATION OF THE IDENTITY ANDSTORY OF ISRAEL IN GEN 25–36Steinar Aandahl Skarpnes, MF- Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society4. THE JOSEPH STORY: BETWEEN A FAMILY AND A POLEMICAL STORYYairah Amit, Tel Aviv University5. SHIBBOLETH: FOLKTALE AND REDACTION-HISTORYChristoph Levin, University of Munich6. A MASTERPIECE OF EARLY HEBREW STORYTELLING:THE SÉANCE AT EN-DOR (1 SAM 28)Reinhard Müller, University of Göttingen7. THE IRREVOCABLE WORD OF GOD (1 KINGS 13:1–32)Pauline A. Viviano8. THE PRAGMATIC CHALLENGE TO MOSES. JEREMIAH30:1-4 IN LIGHT OF DEUTERONOMYBenedetta Rossi, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome9. DATING HAGGAI: OR REFRAMING THE CONTEXT OF APROPHETIC BOOKBob Becking, Utrecht University 10. IT’S ALL IN THE LISTS! BUILDING THE COMMUNITYTHROUGH THE LISTS IN THE BOOKS OF EZRA AND/NEHEMIAHMaria Häusl, Technical University of Dresden and University of Pretoria11. REFERENCES TO JOSIAH IN THE CHRONICLES’NARRATIVELowell K. Handy, Loyola University Chicago12. KEYS TO THE PAST? ARCHAEOLOGICAL CORRELATESOF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL MEMORY FROM THEANCIENT LEVANTAren M. Maeir, Bar-Ilan University13. PUTTING ONE’S HOUSE IN ORDER: HOUSEHOLDARCHAEOLOGY AT TELL HALIF, ISRAELCynthia Shafer-Elliott14. JERICHO BY QUMRAN AND QUMRAN BY JERICHO INLATE ANTIQUITY: A MULTISPECTRAL CULTURALLANDSCAPE THROUGH THE NEW CULTURAL STUDIESDavid Hamidović, University of Lausanne15. KINGS SAUL, DAVID, AND ARTHUR: ON WRITING AHISTORY OF THE “DARK AGE”Lester L. Grabbe, University of Hull16. THE APPEARANCE OF HEBREW PROSE AND THE FABRICOF HISTORYDaniel Pioske, Georgia Southern University17. IF I EVER FORGET YOU, BENJAMIN...James S. Anderson, University of the Incarnate Word, Texas, and Philippe Guillaume, University of Berne18. “HE SHALL ACCOMPLISH MY DESIRED WILL”: THEYEHUDIZED CYRUS IN THE BOOK OF ISAIAHKristin Joachimsen, MF- Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society19. WHERE A SHATTERED VISAGE LIES? WARRANTS FORAUTHORITY IN PERSIAN YEHUDJason Silverman, University of Helsinki20. THE PRODUCTION OF LITERATURE IN JUDEANMILITARY COMMUNITIES IN EGYPTAnne Fitzpatrick, Trinity College Dublin21. PRAYING HISTORY: TAKING A JOYFUL LEAP OF TRUSTSusanne Gillmayr-Bucher, Catholic Private University, Linz22. CULTURAL MEMORY, IDENTITY, AND THE PASTKåre Berge, NLA University College, Bergen23. ALEXANDER AS A SITE OF MEMORY IN HELLENISTICJUDAH IN THE CONTEXT OF MNEMONICAPPROPRIATIONS OF ‘HIGH-VALUE’ OUTSIDERSEhud Ben Zvi24. THE BRAVERY OF WOMEN: JANE DIEULAFOY ANDQUEEN PARYSATIS. THE LONG SHADOWS OF THEPERSIAN EMPIREJorunn Økland, University of OsloList of Diana Edelman’s Publications