By Tomoo Ishida
The concept that of charismatic management used to be brought into the research of Israelite historical past by means of Max Weber. the main influential software of this idea to Israelite heritage used to be through Albrecht Alt, yet in Alt's view 'charismatic leadership... allowed no institutional consolidation, and... couldn't be transferred... or inherited...'. hence charismatic management and the dynastic precept have been together particular. Alt's analyzing of the resources led him to the realization that the Israelite monarchy used to be initially charismatic, and as a result non-dynastic. The hereditary monarchy which constructed in particular in Judah used to be a deviation from real Israelite culture, and the dynastic instability of the northern nation was once because of the greater carry of the real culture there.
Ishida's learn, basically his Hebrew college dissertation of 1974, is a serious synthesis of scholarly dialogue of this question and similar matters. Ishida conceives the difficulty in vast phrases, studying a number of facets of the formation and improvement of monarchic associations and beliefs in Israel and looking out them for info pertinent to the talk. A sampling of the themes coated apropos of the most factor incorporates a superb literary-historical research of the resources in Samuel and reviews of the covenants among David and YHWH and David and Israel, the inhabitants of the town of David, and the jobs of the Ark, the Temple, the ˁam hāˀāreṣ and the Queen mom. even if the writer endorses a present view on those themes, he presses additional to find their implications for the current learn.
Read Online or Download The Royal Dynasties in Ancient Israel: A Study on the Formation and Development of Royal-Dynastic Ideology PDF
Similar israel & palestine books
Britain and the Conflict in the Middle East, 1964-1967: The Coming of the Six-Day War
During this entire examine, Gat seems to be at British coverage within the interval prime as much as the Six-Day conflict. even though Britain holds heart degree during this account, the learn discusses in a few aspect American coverage and its impact at the Arab-Israeli clash. It additionally specializes in the center East water dispute, its impression on destiny occasions, and at last the outbreak of battle in 1967.
Uneasy Neighbors: Israel and the European Union
This booklet deals an research of the dynamics of Israeli-European relatives and discusses major advancements in that courting from the past due Fifties via to the current day. The emphasis is put on 5 huge issues that handle diversified dimensions of the connection: 1) Israeli-E. U. kinfolk and the Israeli-Palestinian peace technique; 2) Israeli-E.
Trial and Error: Israel's Route from War to De-Escalation (S U N Y Series in Israeli Studies)
"By delivering an enticing linkage among Israel's international coverage habit and changes and adjustments in Israeli family politics, Levy is supplying a provocative thesis that merits extensive readership. i've got doubtless that a few readers will applaud Levy's braveness and thesis, and that others will do exactly the other.
Extra info for The Royal Dynasties in Ancient Israel: A Study on the Formation and Development of Royal-Dynastic Ideology
Example text
Smith, The Statue of Idri-mi, 1949, p. 14 lines 3 - 6 . 2 4 - 2 6 . p. 16 lines 34-39. 118 Cf. Buccellati, Cities and Nations, 125fl. » ' ANET 27. 6 6 1 ; KAI § 1 1. § 5 1 - 2 . § 6 1. § 7 1 - 3 ; cf. Β. Maisler (Mazar), The Phoenician Inscriptions from Byblos and the Evolution of the Phoenician-Hebrew Alphabetical Script, Lesonenu 14 (1945/46), 1 6 6 - 1 8 1 (Hebrew) ; W. F. Albright, The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Tenth Century B. C. from Byblus, JAOS 67 (1947), 153-160. 118 Josephus, Contra Apionem, I 1 1 6 - 1 2 5 ; cf.
Cf. H. Schulte, Die Entstehung der Geschichtsschreibung im alten Israel, 1972, 106f. Noth maintains that I Sam 3 was composed by an author who wanted to show the close relation of Samuel to Shiloh (Samuel und Silo, VT 13 [1963], 3 9 0 - 4 0 0 ) . On the other hand, M. Newman argues that Samuel took over the function of the covenant mediator of the amphictyony formerly exercised by Eli (The Prophetic Call of Samuel, in: Muilenburg Festschrift, 1962, 86-97), while M. A. ). The Ideological Conflict on the Eve of the Formation of the Monarchy 33 was the centre of the confederation of the Israelite tribes at t h a t time.
19). Evidently, they are not mutually exclusive, but sometimes one is especially emphasized. Kilamuwa, king of Sam'al-Ya'dy (c. 830), mentions only his royal lineage and his father's throne138; Zakir, king of Hamath and Lu'ath (c. 780), lays emphasis exclusively on his divine election139. This difference doubtless arose from varied situations. Kilamuwa, who ascended the throne of his father, was so successful in establishing his rule that it was unnecessary to mention divine election to enhance his authority; Zakir seems to have been a usurper140.