Centres and Peripheries in the Early Second Temple Period

Christoph Levin (Herausgegeben von) Geboren 1950; em. Professor für Altes Testament an der LMU München; 2010-13 Präsident der International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT); korrespondierendes Mitglied der Niedersächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen und der Finnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; Ehrendoktor der Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Helsinki.Ehud Ben Zvi (Herausgegeben von) Born 1951; Professor (History & Classics) at the University of Alberta; has served and serves as chair of program units/research programmes at the Society of Biblical Literature and the European Association of Biblical Studies ; founder and general editor of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures and former president of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies.

• Ehud Ben Zvi: Introduction - Ehud Ben Zvi: Introductory Centre/Core-Periphery Considerations and the Case of Interplaying of Rigid and Flexible Constructions of Centre and Periphery among the Literati of the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Period - Laurie E. Pearce: Looking for Judeans in Babylonia's Core and Periphery - Bob Becking: Centre, Periphery, and Interference: Notes on the "Passover/Mazzot"-Letter from Elephantine - Sylvie Honigman: Intercultural Exchanges in the Hellenistic East: The Respective Roles of Temples, Royal Offices, Courts, and Gymnasia - Diana Edelman: Identities within a Central and Peripheral Perspective: The Use of Aramaic in the Hebrew Bible - Francis Landy: Between Centre and Periphery: Space and Gender in the Book of Judges in the Early Second Temple Period - Hermann-Josef Stipp: Jeremiah 24: Deportees, Remainees, Returnees, and the Diaspora - Kåre Berge: Are There Centres and Peripheries in Deuteronomy? - Reinhard Müller: The Altar on Mount Gerizim (Deuteronomy 27:1-8): Centre or Periphery? - Erik Aurelius: Periphery as Provocation? 1 Kings 17 and 2 Kings 5 - Magnar Kartveit: The Temple of Jerusalem as the Centre of Affairs in the Book of Chronicles: Memories of the Past and Contemporary Social Setting - Louis C. Jonker: Being both on the Periphery and in the Centre: The Jerusalem Temple in Late Persian Period Yehud from Postcolonial Perspective - Gary N. Knoppers: What is the Core and What is the Periphery in Ezra-Nehemiah? - Juha Pakkala: Centres and Peripheries in the Ezra Story - Friedhelm Hartenstein: The King on the Throne of God: The Concept of World Dominion in Chronicles and Psalm 2 - Beate Ego: Jerusalem and the Nations: "Centre and Periphery" in the Zion Tradition - Kathrin Liess: Centre and Periphery in Psalm 137 - Christoph Levin: The Edition of the Psalms of Ascents - Ann-Cathrin Fiß: "As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us" (Psalm 103:12): Mercy as the Centre of Psalm 103 - Urmas Nõmmik: Qinah Meter: From Genre Periphery to Theological Centre - A Sketch - Peter Juhás: "Centre" and "Periphery" in the Apocalyptic Imagination: The Vision of the Ephah (Zechariah 5:5-11) and the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch as Case Study