Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology
by Richter, Sandra L.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-09-01
Publisher(s): De Gruyter
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Summary
This monograph is a comparative, socio-linguistic reassessment of the Deuteronomic idiom, leshakken shemo sham, and its synonymous biblical reflexes in the Deuteronomistic History, lashum shemo sham, and lihyot shemo sham. These particular formulae have long been understood as evidence of the Name Theology - the evolution in Israelite religion toward a more abstracted mode of divine presence in the temple. Utilizing epigraphic material gathered from Mesopotamian and Levantine contexts, this study demonstrates that leshakken shemo sham and lashum shemo sham are loan-adaptations of Akkadian shuma shakanu, an idiom common to the royal monumental tradition of Mesopotamia. The resulting retranslation and reinterpretation of the biblical idiom profoundly impacts the classic formulation of the Name Theology.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| List of Abbreviations | |
| List of Figures | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Deuteronomistic History | p. 1 |
| The Deuteronomistic History & the Name Theology | p. 7 |
| Whence the Name Theology? | p. 11 |
| A New Paradigm | p. 36 |
| The l sakken s mo sam Formula in Its Biblical Context | p. 41 |
| The Distribution of the l sakken s mo sam Formula and Its Synonymous Reflexes lasum s mo sam and lihyot s mo sam | p. 43 |
| The Biblical Occurrences of the Deuteronomic Formula | p. 53 |
| The Translation of the Deuteronomic Formula | p. 96 |
| Could Deuteronomy's l sakken Be Borrowed into Biblical Hebrew? | p. 121 |
| The l sakken s mo sam Formula in Its ANE Context | p. 127 |
| The Vocabulary: suma + sakanu | p. 128 |
| The Corpus: The Royal Monumental Inscriptions of Mesopotamia | p. 130 |
| Classifying the Inscriptions | p. 136 |
| suma sakanu and the Monumental Corpus | p. 153 |
| suma satra sakanu and the Monumental Corpus | p. 184 |
| suma sakanu in the Levant | p. 199 |
| The Relationship Between suma sakanu and Deuteronomy | p. 204 |
| Conclusion: The Meaning of the l sakken s mo sam formula in the Deuteronomistic History | p. 207 |
| Bibliography | p. 219 |
| Index of Texts | p. 243 |
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