King and Kin: Political Allegory in the Hebrew Bible by Joel Rosenberg

By Joel Rosenberg

"A important addition to collections at the research of the Bible as literature." —Choice"... displays not just on what the Bible is announcing, yet on how and why. the result's an illumination of the position of compositional paintings within the research of the earlier and its consequent political implications." —Shofar"Clearly, there's a lot to achieve from a cautious interpreting of this book." —Journal of the yankee Oriental SocietyJoel Rosenberg explores the elemental innovations and contradictions within the heritage of pre-exilic Israel, emphasizing the transition from tribal confederation to nationwide nation. the result's a desirable illumination of the position of compositional paintings within the research of the previous and its consequent political implications.

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The Greek term hypomnema (memorial, mention, monument, symbol), while not identical in semantic field, bears useful comparison to the Hebrew zikkaron and zekher,62 which, in the Sabbath wine benediction, cast the ritual into a radically bold intrabiblical typology: " . . a remembrance [zikkaron] of the work of Creation . . a reminder [zekher] of the going-out of Egypt. . " If for Philo memory only serves the greater glory of the timeless "unwritten law," its presence in his argument is significant nonetheless.

It has become a vine: it brings forth branches, and it shoots forth sprigs. "There was a single great eagle, great of wing, and plenteous of feathers, and behold, this vine has bent its roots toward him, its tendrils it extends to him, to water it, from the furrows of its planting, < previous page page_35 If you like this book, buy it! "' "Declare: 'Thus says my master YHWH: "Shall it prosper? Shall he not cut off its roots? its fruit, so that it withers? "'" (Ezek. " (Dan. 5:2428) What do these examples have in common?

Since the varieties of remembered human utterance are far more numerous and expressive than those of remembered visual information, the suppleness of the mashal medium is virtually limitless. We could call these phenomena "habits of mind," but they are always verbal, and always specific. A mashal elicits not just a < previous page page_32 If you like this book, buy it! next page > < previous page page_33 next page > Page 33 "message" (a nimshal, a thing analogized) but a broader and more nuanced set of implications, connotations, socially responsible conclusions, and encouragements to further private speculationall through the medium of words and verbal figures.

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