Storymaking, Textual Development, and Varying Cultic Centralizations: Gathering and Fitting Unhewn Stones

Cover
Title
Preface
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: The Unhewn Stones
	1.1 Unevenness and the Origins of the Hebrew Bible: The Truth Is Stranger than Fiction
		1.1.1 Which “Unevenness” to Analyze? How to Move Forward
		1.1.2 Fresh Insights from Social-Scientific Analysis
		1.1.3 Analyzing Unevenness: Starting from Somewhere
	1.2 Proposed Contribution
		1.2.1 Key Premises for the Study
		1.2.2 Central Thesis
		1.2.3 Analytical Tools, Old and New, for a Fresh Study
	1.3 Structure of the Book
Chapter 2: Narrative Historiography and Cultural/Community Memory
	2.1 Ancient Israel, Biblical Israel, and the View from Somewhere
	2.2 Ricoeur and Narrative Historiography
	2.3 Assmann and Cultural Memory
	2.4 Fleming: Israel in Judah’s Narratives
	2.5 Conclusion
Chapter 3: Models of Textual Development: Survey and Assessment
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Recent Challenges to the “Growth Model”
		3.2.1 Karel van der Toorn
		3.2.2 Raymond F. Person Jr. and Orality-Literacy Studies
		3.2.3 David M. Carr
		3.2.4 Juha Pakkala
		3.2.5 Joshua Berman
		3.2.6 Assessment
	3.3 Empirical Studies and Test Cases
		3.3.1 The Ending of Judges
		3.3.2 Two Examples from Chronicles
	3.4 Conclusion: “Storymakers” and Intention
Chapter 4: Northern Israel, Disputed Cultural Memory,and the Politics of Centralization
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Studies on Northern Israel and Benjamin
	4.3 Related Concepts of Political Economy: Selectorate and Heresthetic
		4.3.1 Selectorate Theory
		4.3.2 Heresthetic
	4.4 Applied to Current Biblical Scholarship
		4.4.1 Selectorate Theory in the Governance of Israel and Judah
		4.4.2 Selectorate, Heresthetic, and Structural Change in the Polities of Israel and Judah
		4.4.3 Heresthetic and Textual Identities in the Persian Period
	4.5 Evaluation
Chapter 5: Interim Assessment
Chapter 6: Cultic Sites in the Babylonian and Persian Periods: Potential and Actual Competitors to Jerusalem
	6.1 Scope
	6.2 Outside Yehud
		6.2.1 Elephantine
		6.2.2 Lachish
		6.2.3 Gerizim and Shechem
		6.2.4 Beersheba within Idumea
		6.2.5 Casiphia the Place
	6.3 Within Yehud
		6.3.1 Mizpah
		6.3.2 Bethel
		6.3.3 Geba, Gibeah, Gibeon
	6.4 Evaluation
Chapter 7: Centralization and Anachronism in the Laws and Narratives of the Pentateuch
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Wherever I Cause My Name to Be Remembered: Traces of Pre-Deuteronomic Non-Centralization
		7.2.1 Plurality of Altars (Exodus 20:22–26)
		7.2.2 Levitical Centralization: Mobile Exclusivity
		7.2.3 Deuteronomic Centralization: Geographic Exclusivity
		7.2.4 Exodus 6:2–8, Non-Centralization, and Anachronism in the Narratives of the Patriarchs
		7.2.5 Conclusion
	7.3 Gathering Unhewn Stones: The Sites of Abraham and the Patriarchs
		7.3.1 Jacob’s Sons
		7.3.2 From Shechem and Bethel to (Proto-)Jerusalem: Cultic Activities in Abraham’s Sojournings
		7.3.3 Isaac and Jacob
		7.3.4 Assessment
	7.4 Conclusions
Chapter 8: Next Layer Down: All Roads Lead to Jerusalem in the DtrH
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Tent of Meeting at Shiloh: Joshua 18 through 1 Samuel 4
		8.2.1 The YHWH Cult at Shiloh
		8.2.2 Other Holy Places during the Shiloh Period
		8.2.3 Evaluating the Deuteronomistic Presentation of the “Shiloh Period”
	8.3 From Samuel’s Circuit to David’s Tent: 1 Samuel 4 through 2 Samuel 6
		8.3.1 Samuel’s Non-Centralized Priesthood
		8.3.2 Other Yahwistic Cultic Activity
		8.3.3 Evaluating the Deuteronomistic Presentation of Samuel’s Priesthood
	8.4 Dual or Non-Centralization? Ark-Tent and the Tent of Meeting through Solomon’s Temple (2 Samuel 6 through 1 Kings 8)
		8.4.1 DtrH’s Jerusalem Centralization
		8.4.2 Dual Centralization under David and Solomon in Chronicles
		8.4.3 Evaluating “Dual Centralization”
	8.5 Conclusion
Chapter 9: Bethel, Community Memory, and the (Non-)Erasure of “Decentralized” History in Kings and Beyond
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 The Construal of Bethel and Northern Sites in Hosea and Amos
		9.2.1 Hosea
		9.2.2 Amos
		9.2.3 Summary
	9.3 Portraits of Bethel and Non-centralization in Kings
		9.3.1 Jeroboam’s Bethel and Dan Altars
		9.3.2 Sons of the Prophets and Men of God in Northern Israel
		9.3.3 The Fall of Northern Israel
		9.3.4 Josiah’s Reforms in Kings
		9.3.5 Summary
	9.4 The Chronicler’s Reconstrual of Northern Sites, Deuteronomism,and Pre-Deuteronomistic Elements
		9.4.1 Patriarchs’ Sites of Reverence/Revelation within Chronicles
		9.4.2 Good Judah Kings and Yahwistic “High Places” in 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles
		9.4.3 Summary
	9.5 Bethel in Pre-Dtr, Dtr, and Post-Dtr Texts: A Preliminary Conclusion
Chapter 10: Centralization and the Framing Conclusions of Joshua and Judges
	10.1 Introduction
	10.2 Judges 17–21
		10.2.1 Cultic Activity in Judges 17–21
		10.2.2 Interwoven Narratives: Judges 13–16, 1 Samuel 1–7, and Intervening Judges 17–21
		10.2.3 Discussion
	10.3 The Ending of Joshua: Priestly Completion of a Hexateuch, or Deuteronomistic Seam?
	10.4 Transjordan “Shrine” in Joshua 22: Narrative Analysis
		10.4.1 Looking “Backward”
		10.4.2 Looking “Ahead”
		10.4.3 Conclusion: Narrative and Diachrony
	10.5 Shechem in Joshua 24
	10.6 Summary: Burial of Northern Sites at the Seams of “Books” and of Collections
Chapter 11: Conclusions: Round Stones Forming a Square Altar
	11.1 Danite Shrine Aetiology: A Thought Experiment
	11.2 Summary of Key Theses
		11.2.1 Cultic Centralization: Legal Options within the Pentateuch
		11.2.2 Heresthetic Inclusion and Co-option of Bethel and Shechem
		11.2.3 At the Seams: Framing Bethel and Shechem in Narrative
	11.3 Synthesis: Heresthetic to Achieve Elite and Popular Support for Judah’s Bible
	11.4 Implications for Further Study
	11.5 Epilogue: Modern Discomfort with “Unhewn Stones”
Bibliography
Source Index
Index of Modern Authors
Subject Index