Exodus
Further Reading: The Deuteronomistic History
The Hebrew Bible Coogan, Michael, The Old Testament- A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures (New York- Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 278. Levenson, Jon D. Sinai and Zion- An Entry into the Jewish Bible (Harper- San Francisco, 1987). Levinson, Deirdre. “The Psychopathology of King Saul.” In Out of the Garden- Women Writers […]
Response to Catastrophe (1 and 2 Kings), Christine Hayes, Open Yale Courses (Transcription), 2006.
We were talking last time about the establishment of the monarchy or kingship in Israel and I want to say a little bit about some of the features of Israelite kingship, and today I’ll be coming back frequently to the Israelite notions of kingship and royal ideology. But to start off- one of the most […]
Hierosolima (Jerusalem), Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514), Woodcut, Nuremberg, 1493.
This woodcut, from the Kyram Collection, shows the Temple of Solomon in the center of Jerusalem.
1 Samuel 8: The Desire For a King over Israel, Texts and Traditions, ed. Lawrence H. Schiffman, Ktav Publishing House, Hoboken NJ, 1998.
Samuel can be seen as the last of the judges, yet with his career, biblical leadership takes a decided turn toward the prophetic. So long as Samuel, the righteous judge, made his rounds throughout the land, there was justice in Israel, and the Philistines did not attack. But with the appointment of Samuel’s sons as […]
Prophets and Kings (1 and 2 Samuel), Christine Hayes, Open Yale Courses (Transcription), 2006.
One thing that kept cropping up [in the mid-term exam], and it is something that crops up every time I teach this course, and I should always say something about it preemptively, is just a terminological issue. Israelites are not Israelis. The word “Israeli,” term “Israeli,” refers to a citizen of the modern state of […]
