Möchten Sie über diese Zeitschrift informiert bleiben? Klicken Sie bitte auf die Buttons, um unsere Alerts zu abonnieren.
Möchten Sie über diese Zeitschrift informiert bleiben? Klicken Sie bitte auf die Buttons, um unsere Alerts zu abonnieren.
Reconciliation in the Joseph Story
in Biblical InterpretationSearch for other papers by Eric X. Jarrard in
Current site
Google Scholar
Abstract
This article uses contributions from the field of conflict transformation to illuminate the Joseph story and provide a more nuanced understanding of the type of resolution attained by Joseph and his brothers in Genesis 50. This analysis demonstrates important and revelatory differences between the concepts of forgiveness and reconciliation. Understanding the differences between these terms clarifies certain interpretive aspects of the Joseph story and the history of its authors heretofore overlooked in biblical scholarship. The emphasis of the biblical text on public reconciliation—not the private act of forgiveness—operates as a polemic against egocentricity and reflects an attempt to memorialize intertribal reconciliation. Such concerns provide support for those who assert a monarchic background to Genesis 50.
Kauf
Sofortzugang erwerben (PDF-Download und unbegrenzter Online-Zugang):
Institutszugang
Melden Sie sich mit Open Athens, Shibboleth oder Ihren institutionellen Anmeldedaten an.
Persönliche Anmeldung
Melden Sie sich mit Ihrem brill.com-Konto an
-
Aka, Philip C. “Nigeria: The Need for an Effective Policy of Ethnic Reconciliation in the New Century.” Temple International and Comparative Law Journal 14 (2000): 327–61.
-
Albertz, Rainer and Bob, Becking, eds. Yahwism after the Exile: Perspectives on Israelite Religion in the Persian Era, Studies in Theology and Religion 5. Assen: Van Gorcum, 2003.
-
Anderson, Gary A. Sin: A History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
-
Assmann, Jan. “Collective Memory and Cultural Identity.” New German Critique 65 (1995): 125–33.
-
Baden, Joel S. The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.
-
Battle, Michael. Reconciliation: The Ubuntu Theology of Desmond Tutu. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1997.
-
Bauer, Gretchen. “Challenges to Democratic Consolidation in Namibia.” Pages 429–50 in State, Conflict and Democracy in Africa. Edited by Richard Joseph. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999.
-
Bauer, Gretchen. “Namibia in the First Decade of Independence: How Democratic?” Journal of Southern African Studies (2001): 33–55.
-
Berthoud, Pierre. “The Reconciliation of Joseph with His Brothers: Sin, Forgiveness and Providence.” European Journal of Theology 17 (2008): 5–11.
-
Bloch-Smith, Elizabeth. Judahite Burial Practices and Beliefs about the Dead. JSOTSup 123. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1992.
-
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Vol. Routledge: New York, NY, 1990.
-
Carr, David M. Reading the Fractures of Genesis: Historical and Literary Approaches. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996.
-
Carr, David M. The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: A New Reconstruction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
-
Chapman, Audrey R. and Hugo van der Merwe. Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC Deliver? Edited by Audrey R. Chapman and Hugo van der Merwe. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
-
Clifford, Richard J. “Genesis 37–50: Joseph Story or Jacob Story?” Pages 213–31 In The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation. Edited by Craig A. Evans, Joel N. Lohr, and David L. Petersen, VTSup. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
-
Coats, George W. From Canaan to Egypt: Structural and Theological Context for the Joseph Story. CBQMS 4. Washington, D.C.: Catholic Biblical Association, 1976.
-
Coetzee, Carli. “‘They Never Wept, the Men of My Race’: Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull and the White South African Signature.” Journal of Southern African Studies 27 (2001): 685–96.
-
Crocker, David A. “Reckoning with Past Wrongs: A Normative Framework.” Ethics and International Affairs 3 (1996): 43–64.
-
Crüesmann, Frank. Der Widerstand gegen das Königtum: Die antiköniglichen Texte des Alten Testamentes und der Kampf um den frühen israelitischen Staat. WMANT 49. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlaag, 1978.
-
Daly, Erin. “Transformative Justice: Charting a Path to Reconciliation.” International Legal Perspectives 12 (2001): 73–183.
-
Davis, Andrew R. Reconstructing the Temple: The Royal Rhetoric of Temple Renovation in the Ancient Near East and Israel. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019.
-
De Gruchy, John W. Reconciliation: Restoring Justice Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2002.
-
Dietrich, Walter. Die Josephserzählung als Novelle und Geschichtsschreibung: zugleich ein Beitrag zur Pentateuchfrage. Biblisch-theologische Studien 14. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1989
-
Eichrodt, Walther. Theology of the Old Testament. Translated by J. A. Baker. Vol. 2. London: SCM, 1967.
-
Erll, Astrid. Memory in Culture. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011.
-
Fischer, Georg. “Die Josefsgeschichte als Modell für Versöhnung.” Pages 243–71 in Studies in the Book of Genesis: Literature, Redaction and History. Edited by Wénin A, BETL 155. Leuven: University Press/Peeters, 2001.
-
Freedman, Suzanne. “Forgiveness and Reconciliation: The Importance of Understanding How They Differ.” Counseling & Values 42 (1998): 200–16.
-
Fung, Yiu Wing. Victim and Victimizer: Joseph’s Interpretation of His Destiny. JSOTSup 308. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
-
Gertz, Jan C. “The Transition between the Books of Genesis and Exodus.” Pages 73–88 in A Farewell to the Yahwist? The Composition of the Pentateuch in Recent European Interpretation. Edited by Thomas B. Dozeman and Konrad Schmid. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2006.
-
Gese, Helmut. “Die Sühne.” Beiträge zur evangelischen Theologie 78 (1979): 85–106.
-
Gibson, James L. Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.
-
Golka, Friedemann W. “Genesis 37–50: Joseph Story or Israel-Joseph Story?” CurBR 2 (2004): 153–77.
-
Grabbe, Lester L. A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period. Vol. 1, Yehud: A History of the Persian Province of Judah. LSTS 47. New York, NY: Clark, 2004.
-
Graybill, Lyn S. Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Miracle Or Model? Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002.
-
Gready, Paul. The Era of Transitional Justice: The Aftermath of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa and Beyond. New York: Routledge, 2011.
-
Gunkel, Hermann. “Joseph.” Pages 648–49 in RGG. Edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Vol. 3. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1956–1957.
-
Gutmann, Amy and Dennis Thompson. “The Moral Foundations of Truth Commissions.” Pages 22–44 in Truth v. Justice. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg and Dennis Thompson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.
-
Hicks, Donna. “The Role of Identity Reconstruction in Promoting Reconciliation.” Pages 129–49 in Forgiveness and Reconciliation. Edited by Raymond Helmick and Rodney L. Petersen. Philadelphia, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2001.
-
Hicks, Donna, Hugh O’Doherty, Pamela Pomerance Steiner, et al. “Addressing Intergroup Conflict by Integrating and Realigning Identity: An Arab-Israeli Workshop.” Pages 279–302 in Group Process and Political Dynamics. Edited by Mark F. Ettin, Jay W. Fidler, and Bertram D. Cohen. Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1994.
-
Hornung, Gabriel F. “The Nature and Import of the Relationship Between the Joseph Story in Genesis and the Book of Esther.” PhD diss., Harvard University, 2016.
-
Hurvitz, Avi. “Hebrew and Aramaic in the Biblical Period: The Problem of ‘Aramaisms’ in Linguistic Research on the Hebrew Bible.” in Biblical Hebrew: Studies in Chronology and Typology. Edited by Ian Young, JSOTSup 369. New York, NY: T&T Clark, 2003.
-
Janowski, Bernd. Sühne als Heilsgeschehen: Traditions- und religionsgeschichtliche Studien zur priesterschriftlichen Sühnetheologie. WMANT 55. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 2000.
-
Jones, Gregory L. Practicing Forgiveness. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 1995.
-
Kaminsky, Joel. Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2007.
-
Kaufman, Stephen A. “The Classification of the North West Semitic Dialects of the Biblical Period and Some Implications Thereof.” World Congress of Jewish Studies 9, Panel Sessions: Hebrew and Aramaic Languages (1985): 41–57.
-
Kim, Hyun Chul Paul. “Reading the Joseph Story (Genesis 37-50) as a Diaspora Narrative.” CBQ 75 (2013): 219–238.
-
Kitchener, Richard F. Piaget’s Theory of Knowledge: Genetic Epistemology and Scientific Reason. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986.
-
Knight, Elizabeth. “Facing the Past: Retrospective Justice as a Means to Promote Democracy in Nigeria.” Connecticut Law Review 25 (2003): 867–914.
-
Koch, Klaus. “Sühne und Sündenvergebung.” EvT 26 (1966): 217–39.
-
Köhler, Ludwig. Theologie des Alten Testaments. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1966.
-
Kratz, Reinhard G. The Composition of the Narrative Books of the Old Testament. Translated by John Bowden. New York, NY: T&T Clark, 2005.
-
Krog, Antijie. Country of My Skull. 2nd ed. Johannesburg: Random House, 2002.
-
Lambert, David A. How Repentance Became Biblical: Judaism, Christianity, and the Interpretation of Scripture. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016.
-
Lemaire, André. “Aramaic LIterature and Hebrew Literature.” World Congress of Jewish Studies 9, Panel Sessions: Hebrew and Aramaic Languages (1985): 9–24.
-
Levenson, Jon D. The Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, and Historical Criticism: Jews and Christians in Biblical Studies. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1993.
-
Levin, Christoph. Der Jahwist. FRLANT 157. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993.
-
Lipschits, Oded and Manfed Oeming, eds. Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006.
-
Lipschits, Oded, Gary N. Knoppers, and Manfed Oeming, eds. Judah and the Judeans in the Achaemenid Period: Negotiating Identity in an International Context. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2011.
-
Longacre, Robert E. Joseph: A Story of Divine Providence: A Text Theoretical and Textlinguistic Analysis of Genesis 37 and 39–48. 2nd ed. Eisenbrauns, 2003.
-
Mandela, Nelson, “Address by President Nelson Mandela in Special Debate on Report of Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” Special Debate of Parliment, Cape Town, South Africa, Feb 25, 1999, http://www.mandela.gov.za/mandela_speeches/1999/990225_trc.htm.
-
McConville, J. Gordon. “Forgiveness as Private and Public Act: A Reading of the Biblical Joseph Narrative.” CBQ 75 (2013): 635–48.
-
Mead, George Herbert. Mind, Self, and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1924.
-
Meinhold, Arndt. “Die Gattung der Josephsgeschichte und des Esterbuches: Diasporanovellen I.” ZAW 87 (1975): 306–24.
-
Meinhold, Arndt. “Die Gattung der Josephsgeschichte und des Esterbuches: Diasporanovellen II.” ZAW 88 (1976): 72–93.
-
Mendeloff, David. “Truth-seeking, Truth-telling, and Postconflict Peacebuilding: Curb the Enthusiasm?” International Studies Review 6 (2004): 355–80.
-
Milgrom, Jacob. Leviticus 23–27: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Vol. 3. AB. New York: Doubleday, 2001.
-
Minow, Martha. Between Vengeance and Forgiveness Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1998.
-
Moberly, R. W. L. The Theology of the Book of Genesis. Old Testament Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
-
Morag, Shelomo. “Die Lexickalischen und Grammatikalischen Aramaismen im Alttestamentlichen Hebräisch: A Review Article.” JAOS 92 (1972): 298–300.
-
Moss, Laura. “‘Nice Audible Crying’: Editions, Testimonies, and Country of My Skull.” Research in African Literatures 37 (2006): 85–104.
-
Newsom, Carol A. “Selective Recall and Ghost Memories: Two Aspects of Cultural Memory in the Hebrew Bible.” Pages 41–56 in Memory and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity: A Conversation with Barry Schwartz. Edited by Tom Thatcher. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2014.
-
Nino, Carols Santiago. Radical Evil on Trial. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.
-
North, Joanna. “Wrongdoing and Forgiveness.” Philosophy 62 (1987): 499–508.
-
North, Joanna. “The Ideal of Forgiveness.” Pages 15–34 in Exploring Forgiveness. Edited by Robert D. Enright and Joanna Noth. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
-
Nwaoru, Emmanuel O. “Genesis 50:15–21 and Its Challenges to Reconcilliation Process in Africa.” Scriptura 106 (2011): 9–19.
-
Olick, Jeffrey K. The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007.
-
Osiel, Mark. Mass Atrocity, Collective Memory, and the Law. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1997.
-
Paap, Carolin. Die Josephsgeschichte Genesis 37–50: Bestimmungen ihrer literarischen Gattung in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Europäische Hochschulschriften 534. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1995.
-
Piaget, Jean. The Construction of Reality in the Child. New York, NY: Ballantine, 1937.
-
Rad, Gerhard von. Biblical Interpretations in Preaching. Translated by John Steely. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1972.
-
Rad, Gerhard von. Genesis: A Commentary. Translated by John Marks. rev. ed. OTL. London: SCM Press, 1972.
-
Rad, Gerhard von. Gottes Wirken in Israel: Vorträge zum Alten Testament. Neukirchen–Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1974.
-
Rad, Gerhard von. “The Story of Joseph.” Pages 19–35 in God at Work in Israel. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1980.
-
Rad, Gerhard von. “The Joseph Narrative and Ancient Wisdom.” Pages 75–88 in From Genesis to Chronicles: Explorations in Old Testament Theology, Fortress Classics in Biblical Studies. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2005.
-
Radine, Jason. The Book of Amos in Emergent Judah. FAT 2/ 45. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010.
-
Redford, Donald B. A Study of the Biblical Story of Joseph (Genesis 37–50). VTSup 20. Leiden: Brill, 1970.
-
Reimer, David J. “Stories of Forgiveness: Narrative Ethics and the Old Testament.” Pages 359–78 in Reflection and Refraction: Studies in Biblical Historiography in Honour of A. Graeme Auld. Edited by Robert Rezetko, Timothy H. Lim, and W. Brian Aucker, VTSup 113. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
-
Rendsberg, Gary A. Israelian Hebrew in the Book of Kings. Occasional Publications of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Program of Jewish Studies, Cornell University 5. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2002.
-
Römer, Thomas. “How Jeroboam II became Jeroboam I.” HBAI 6 (2017): 372–82.
-
Römer, Thomas. “The Joseph Story in the Book of Genesis: Pre-P or Post-P?” Pages 185–202 in The Post-Priestly Pentateuch: New Perspectives on its Redactional Development and Theological Profiles. Edited by Federico Giuntoli and Konrad Schmid, FAT. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015.
-
Ruden, Sarah. “Country of My Skull: Guilt and Sorrow and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa.” Ariel 30 (1999): 165–79.
-
Sanders, Mark. Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007.
-
Sarkin, Jeremy. “The Trials and Tribulations of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” South African Journal on Human Rights 12 (1996): 617–40.
-
Sarkin, Jeremy and Erin Daly. “Too Many Questions, Too Few Answers: Reconciliation in Transitional Societies.” Columbia Human Rights Law Review 35 (2004): 661–728.
-
Schmid, Konrad. “Die Josephsgeschichte im Pentateuch.” Pages 83–118 in Abschied vom Jahwisten: Die Komposition des Hexateuch in der jüngsten Diskussion Edited by Jan C. Gertz, Konrad Schmid, and Markus Witte, BZAW 315. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2002.
-
Schmid, Ludwig. Literarische Studien zur Josephsgeschichte. BZAW 167. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1986.
-
Schniedewind, William M. and Daniel Sivan. “The Elijah-Elisha Narratives: A Test Case for the Northern Dialect of Hebrew.” Jewish Quarterly Review 87 (1997): 303–37.
-
Seabass, Horst. Genesis III: Josephsgeschichte (37,1-50,26). Neukirchen–Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 2000.
-
Sitze, Adam. The Impossible Machine: A Genealogy of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2013.
-
Ska, Jean Louis. Introduzione alla lettura del Pentateuco: chiavi per l’interpretazione dei primi cinque libri della Bibbia. Rome: Edizioni Dehoniane, 1998.
-
Ska, Jean Louis. Introduction to Reading the Pentateuch. Translated by Pascale Dominique. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006.
-
Smith, Bryan. “The Central Role of Judah in Genesis 37–50.” BSac 162 (2005): 158–74.
-
Smith, Mark S. The Memoirs of God: History, Memory and the Experience of the Divine. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2004.
-
Sommer, Benjamin D. “Dating Pentateuchal Texts and the Perils of Pseudo-Historicism.” Pages 85–108 in A Farewell to the Yahwist? The Composition of the Pentateuch in Recent European Interpretation. Edited by Thomas B. Dozeman and Konrad Schmid. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2006.
-
van der Merwe, Hugo. “Reconciliation and Justice in South Africa: Lessons from the TRC’s Community Interventions.” Pages 187–207 in Reconciliation, Justice, and Coexistence: Theory and Practice. Edited by Mohammed Abu-Nimer. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2001.
-
Volf, Miroslav. Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1996.
-
Watts, James W., ed. Persia and Torah: The Theory of Imperial Authorization of the Pentateuch, SBL SymS 17. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2001.
-
Wenham, Gordon J. Genesis 16–50. WBC 2. Dallas, TX: Word, 1994.
-
Westermann, Claus. Genesis 37–50: A Commentary. Vol. 3. BKAT 1. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1986.
-
Westermann, Claus. Joseph: Studies of the Joseph Stories in Genesis. Translated by Omar Kaste. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996.
-
Wills, Lawrence M. The Jew in the Court of the Foreign King: Ancient Jewish Court Legends. HDR 26. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1990.
-
Wilson, Ian D. Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
-
Wilson, Ian D. “History and the Hebrew Bible: Culture, Narrative, and Memory.” Brill Research Perspectives in Biblical Interpretation 3 (2018): 1–69.
-
Wright, Jacob L. David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
-
Young, Ian. “The ‘Northernisms’ of the Israelite Narratives in Kings.” Zeitschrift für Althebräistik 8 (1995): 63–70.
| Insgesamt | Letzte 365 Tage | In den letzten 30 Tagen | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aufrufe von Kurzbeschreibungen | 1021 | 156 | 12 |
| Gesamttextansichten | 213 | 24 | 2 |
| PDF-Downloads | 533 | 54 | 6 |
Reconciliation in the Joseph Story
in Biblical InterpretationSearch for other papers by Eric X. Jarrard in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Abstract
This article uses contributions from the field of conflict transformation to illuminate the Joseph story and provide a more nuanced understanding of the type of resolution attained by Joseph and his brothers in Genesis 50. This analysis demonstrates important and revelatory differences between the concepts of forgiveness and reconciliation. Understanding the differences between these terms clarifies certain interpretive aspects of the Joseph story and the history of its authors heretofore overlooked in biblical scholarship. The emphasis of the biblical text on public reconciliation—not the private act of forgiveness—operates as a polemic against egocentricity and reflects an attempt to memorialize intertribal reconciliation. Such concerns provide support for those who assert a monarchic background to Genesis 50.
| Insgesamt | Letzte 365 Tage | In den letzten 30 Tagen | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aufrufe von Kurzbeschreibungen | 1021 | 156 | 12 |
| Gesamttextansichten | 213 | 24 | 2 |
| PDF-Downloads | 533 | 54 | 6 |
