Kingship and ‘State’ in Torah, History, and Poetry:

Autor(en)

Johanna Friedl

Abstrakt

In exploring the constituent elements of our modern-day nation state,
this contribution wishes to highlight those areas in which anachronism
might arise in Old Testament interpretations of ‘state’. This might
happen due to the influence of deeply-rooted modern-day conceptions,
according to which a state consists of a people group living within a
distinct territory, governed by a body holding jurisdiction over both
people and territory. This contribution explores pre-exilic, exilic, and
post-exilic biblical texts containing the elements of people, land, and
king, asking whether these texts wish to convey a political or rather a
theological message.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Bibelwissenschaft

Journal

Old Testament Essays

Band

33

Seiten

232

Anzahl der Seiten

249

ISSN

1010-9919

Publikationsdatum

2020

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

603201 Alttestamentliche Bibelwissenschaft

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Religious studies

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/kingship-and-state-in-torah-history-and-poetry(fb05614c-f92b-43c1-9b1a-0c20521e9c21).html