Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2020.1805204
J. Grossman
ABSTRACT The prevalent reading of the story of Jacob’s struggle at Jabbok is that after a night of fighting, Jacob triumphs over his attacker, demands that he bless him, and indeed receives a divine blessing. This reading raises several difficulties, the most striking among them the question why Jacob does not flee his attacker and return to his family the moment he overcomes his attacker, but rather demands his blessing. This article proposes a new reading of this struggle which solves these narrative conundrums. It is not Jacob who triumphs over his attacker, but the divine being who in fact triumphs over Jacob. This new reading, enabled by the narrative’s ambiguity, is more unified and more harmonious within its broader context.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2020.1801945
T. Cason
ABSTRACT Responding to recent conversations surrounding the maturation of Tobias in the tale, the essay applies recent advancements in masculinity studies to examine the portrayal of Tobias in the book of Tobit as a coming-of-age story. In so doing, the essay offers one of few full length treatments devoted to Tobias in the tale. Analyzing the terminology used to refer to Tobias in conjunction with the shifts in characterization he experiences over the course of the story, the essay proposes that as Tobias advances from being a child, to young manhood, and finally matured manhood, he comes to replicate the model of masculinity passed down to him from his father. As such, his maturation proves less a matter of individuation and more a matter of social conformity than anything else.
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{"title":"List of Introductions to the Old Testament and Other Useful Works","authors":"B. A. Strawn","doi":"10.4324/9780203075692-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203075692-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42456,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72644576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Pentateuch (Torah)","authors":"B. A. Strawn","doi":"10.4324/9780203075692-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203075692-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42456,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84093478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Story to Song","authors":"B. A. Strawn","doi":"10.4324/9780203075692-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203075692-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42456,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament","volume":"605 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77447300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Prophets (Neviʾim)","authors":"B. A. Strawn","doi":"10.4324/9780203075692-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203075692-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42456,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80318159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Story of the Old Testament and the Old Testament as Story","authors":"B. A. Strawn","doi":"10.4324/9780203075692-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203075692-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42456,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73587295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2019.1686279
Mika S. Pajunen, Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme
The present theme issue of the Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament on the functions of psalms and prayers in the Second Temple period emanates from a two-part international conference on the same topic held in Copenhagen in May 2015 and in Helsinki in September 2015. The conferences gathered almost thirty scholars from Europe and North America working on psalms and prayers. The conferences were generously supported by the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS), the Emil Aaltonen Foundation, and the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence: Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions (CSTT). The papers presented at the conferences were edited by Mika S. Pajunen and Jeremy Penner and published in 2017 (de Gruyter, BZAW, 486). Research on psalms and prayers in ancient Jewish literature is in a stage of transition in these years. In light of the wealth of firsthand evidence on the uses and functions of psalms and prayers in late Second Temple Judaism provided by the Qumran manuscripts, a view of the Masoretic Book of Psalms now in the Hebrew Bible simply as a hymnbook of Second Temple Judaism is no longer sustainable. The uses and functions of psalms and prayers now appear to have been significantly more varied and multivalent than what was previously assumed, and new models concerning the composition, categorization and functional classification of psalms and psalm collections are needed in order to advance scholarly understanding of these texts and their social and historical contexts. The main aim of the two conferences was to facilitate a discussion about fresh trajectories that research on psalms and prayers should take in the coming years. A second objective was to strengthen Nordic research collaboration in this area of Biblical Studies. Scandinavian biblical scholarship has a strong tradition in Psalm research, which over the years has been complemented by a significant expertise in Qumran studies, and we wanted to sustain and develop this particular Nordic focus and momentum.
本期《斯堪的纳维亚旧约杂志》主题为第二圣殿时期诗篇和祈祷的功能，源于2015年5月在哥本哈根和2015年9月在赫尔辛基就同一主题举行的分两部分的国际会议。会议聚集了来自欧洲和北美的近30位研究赞美诗和祈祷文的学者。这些会议得到了北欧人文和社会科学研究理事会联合委员会(NOS-HS)、埃米尔·阿尔托宁基金会和芬兰科学院卓越中心:神圣文本和传统的变化(CSTT)的慷慨支持。会议上发表的论文由Mika S. Pajunen和Jeremy Penner编辑，并于2017年发表(de Gruyter, BZAW, 486)。近年来，对古代犹太文学中诗歌和祈祷的研究正处于一个转型阶段。根据库姆兰手稿提供的关于第二圣殿晚期犹太教中诗篇和祈祷的用途和功能的第一手证据，现在希伯来圣经中的马所拉诗篇仅仅是第二圣殿犹太教的赞美诗的观点不再是可持续的。现在，诗篇和祈祷的用途和功能似乎比以前所认为的更加多样化和多价值，为了促进对这些文本及其社会和历史背景的学术理解，需要新的模式来研究诗篇和诗篇集的组成、分类和功能分类。这两次会议的主要目的是促进对未来几年诗篇和祈祷研究应该采取的新轨迹的讨论。第二个目标是加强北欧在圣经研究这一领域的研究合作。斯堪的纳维亚圣经学术在诗篇研究方面有很强的传统，多年来在库姆兰研究方面有重要的专业知识，我们希望保持和发展这种北欧的特别关注和势头。
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2019.1686281
Mika S. Pajunen
ABSTRACT This study deals with the question of why there is a Book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible. In previous studies the question has typically been seen as an either-or issue between liturgical, educational, and prophetic use of the psalms. It is shown in this study that all these different uses persisted at least until the end of the Second Temple period, were common to both now biblical and apocryphal psalms, and together contributed to the emergence of a canonical book of psalms. While it will be demonstrated that a division of psalm material cannot be based on such functional indicators or a sense of prestige given to a specific collection of psalms, it will be argued that the Maccabean revolt led to a historical process that incidentally created a watershed between most psalms composed before and after this gradual process. Such markers are visible in the style of the psalms and their functional markers but most of all in a marked shift of perspective from a more general aim to influence the whole people of Israel common to earlier psalms to the consistent use of group perspectives in later works. This shift in the perspective of psalms also contributed to the recontextualization of many earlier psalms to new settings, which further contributed to a later perceivable boundary between the earlier and later psalm material. By focusing on the historical processes instigated by radical societal changes this study offers fresh alternatives for understanding the complex developments that led to the eventual canonization of a book of psalms.
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