Yahwistic Diversity and the Hebrew Bible: Tracing Perspectives of Group Identity from Judah, Samaria, and Diaspora in Biblical Traditions

Programme 

The “Yahwistic Diversity and the Hebrew Bible” research unit aims at investigating the diverse forms of Yahwism that seem to have existed in the exilic and postexilic Yehud/Judah, Samaria and Diaspora, as well as the impact of these forms of Yahwism on the texts of the Hebrew Bible. In this research unit it is assumed that this Yahwistic diversity can be reconstructed and analyzed with the use of a combination of archeological, historical, sociological, literary and exegetical studies. It can be expected that the reconstruction of the diverse (not only Judean) forms of Yahwism will lead to a better understanding of the rhetorical and allusive features of various texts in the Hebrew Bible, their literary and historical settings, as well as the diverse forms of the emerging Judaism(s).

 

Keywords:

Judaism(s), Early Judaism, Emergence of Yahwism, Group Identity Formation Formation of the Pentateuch / Hexateuch, Second Temple Period, Different Textual Traditions

Chairs

Bartosz Adamczewski
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

Benedikt Hensel
University of Göttingen

Dany Nocquet
Institut Protestant de Théologie-Faculté de Montpellier


Member Area

Toulouse 2022 Call for Papers

The phenomenon of Yahwistic diversity and its impact upon the formation of the Hebrew Bible continues to attract attention of numerous scholars. Whereas the meeting of the EABS “Yahwistic Diversity and the Hebrew Bible” research unit in Wuppertal 2021 was devoted to the study of this phenomenon in the socio-geographical categories of being “inside the land of Israel” and “outside the land of Israel”, the meeting in Toulouse 2022 will be devoted to the study of the influence of Yahwistic diversity upon the formation of biblical and extrabiblical traditions outside the Pentateuch, especially in the Former Prophets and in the Writings (Ketubim).

 

The research unit organizes three sessions in Toulouse 2022 and invites papers addressing a) the influence of Yahwistic diversity upon the formation of biblical traditions in the Former Prophets, b) the influence of Yahwistic diversity upon the formation of biblical traditions in the Writings (Ketubim), and c) the influence of Yahwistic diversity upon the formation of biblical and extrabiblical traditions that is more loosely related to the main scholarly interest of the research group. We encourage scholars to adopt various interpretive approaches, based on historical, literary, text-critical, rhetorical, socio-rhetorical, and other models.