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- Title: Honor, Shame, And Covenant Relations in Ancient Israel and Its Environment.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 1996
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 224 KB
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Copious studies of the concept of covenant, treaty rituals, and associated terminology have been published in recent decades, including many investigations seeking to place Israelite covenant making in its wider ancient West Asian context. (1) Covenant cutting, knowing, loyalty ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.]), love and hatred, brotherhood and friendship, curse and blessing are now commonplace concepts in the discourse of biblical and West Asian specialists and have been for several decades. (2) Few would dispute that covenant was a primary basis for social organization in the West Asian cultural sphere in which Israel emerged as a distinct polity. Though certain aspects of covenant have been closely scrutinized, work remains to be done; the points of contact between the universe of covenanting and the notions of honor and shame have yet to be explored in any depth. (3) In covenant-related discourse from a diverse range of West Asian contexts the vocabulary of honor and shame occurs; notions of honor and shame must therefore play a role in West Asian covenant relations, including those evidenced in Israelite sources. It is my purpose here to initiate an exploration of the place of honor and shame in West Asian covenant relations, with Israel as the primary focus of investigation. This is a programmatic piece; it is intended as a prolegomenon to a more detailed and comprehensive book-length study to come. In this piece, I will begin with a brief survey illustrating the ubiquity of the notions of honor and shame in Israelite and other West Asian sources; after this, I will examine the functions of honor and shame in West Asian covenant settings specifically, drawing on evidence mainly from Mari, the Amarna archive, Assyrian materials, and the Hebrew Bible; then I will proceed to a detailed analysis of the covenant dynamics of a number of Israelite narrative texts and one lyrical text in which honor and shame play a part: 2 Sam 19:1-9, 10-44; 2 Sam 10:1-6; 1 Samuel 3 1/2 Samuel 1-2; and Lamentations 1. My inquiry has been shaped to a large extent by contemporary anthropological theory on honor/shame and on ritual; I draw on the insights of this literature in order to illuminate the social and political functions of honor and shame in their ancient settings and the manner in which honoring or diminishment (which results in shame) publicizes the relative status of participants in ritual action, a usual locus for the conferring of honor or shame. I. Honor and Shame in Israelite and Other West Asian Sources
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