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Myths of Exile: History and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible (Copenhagen International Seminar)

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The Babylonian exile in 587-539 BCE is steadily presented as the main explanatory factor for the religious and literary developments found in the Hebrew Bible. The sheer number of both ‘historical’ and narrative exiles confirms that the theme of exile is of great importance in the Hebrew Bible. Alternatively, one does not do justice to the topic by restricting it to the exile in Babylon after 587 BCE. In up to date years, it has change into clear that there are several discrepancies between biblical and extra-biblical sources on invasion and deportation in Palestine in the 1st millennium BCE. Such discrepancy confirms that the theme of exile in the Hebrew Bible will have to not be viewed as an echo of a single traumatic historical event, but reasonably as a literary motif that may be repeatedly reworked by biblical authors.


Myths of Exile challenges the traditional understanding of ‘the Exile’ as a monolithic historical reality and instead provides a critical and comparative assessment of motifs of estrangement and belonging in the Hebrew Bible and related literature. The usage of selected texts as case studies, this book demonstrates how tales of exile and return may also be described as a common formative narrative in the literature of the ancient Near East, a narrative that has been interpreted and used in more than a few ways depending on the needs and cultural contexts of the interpreting community. Myths of Exile is a critical study which forms the basis for a fresh understanding of these exile myths as identity-building literary phenomena.


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