Imagining the Other and Constructing Israelite Identity in the Early Second Temple Period

Ehud Ben Zvi is Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta, Canada.Diana V. Edelman is Research Associate, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

• AbbreviationsDiana V. EdelmanIntroductionJeremiah W. Cataldo1. The Other: Sociological Perspectives in a Post-Colonial AgeEhud Ben Zvi2. ‘Othering, Selfing, ‘Boundarying’ and ‘Crossing-Boundarying’ as Interwoven with Socially Shared Memories: Some ObservationsDiana V. Edelman3. YHWH’s Othering of IsraelKåre Berge4. Categorical Identities: ‘Ethnified Otherness and Sameness’–A Tool for Understanding Boundary Negotiation in the Pentateuch?Mark G. Brett5. Natives and Immigrants in the Social Imagination of the Holiness SchoolClaudia V. Camp6. Gender and Identity in the Book of NumbersCarey Walsh7. Women on the EdgeAnne-Mareike Wetter8. Ruth–A Born-Again Israelite? One Woman’s Journey through Space and TimeRobert L. Cohn9. Overcoming Otherness in the Book of RuthTerje Stordalen10. Imagined and Forgotten Communities: Othering in the Story of Josiah’s Reform (2 Kings 23)Suzanne Gilmayr-Bucher11. Jonah and the Other: A Discourse on Interpretative CompetenceJean-Daniel Macchi12. Denial, Deception or Force: How to Deal with Powerful Others in the Book of EstherTamara Cohn Eskenazi13. Imagining the Other in the Construction of Judahite Identity in Ezra-NehemiahTobias Funke14. Phinehas and the Other Priests in Ben Sira and 1 MaccabeesRebecca Raphael15. Disability, Identity, and Otherness in Persian Period Israelite ThoughtAnke Dorman16. The Other Others–A Qumran Perspective on DisabilityBibliography

[This] book contains 16 clearly written essays ... [which] cumulatively make a valuable contribution to an ongoing conversation within the field.