Save

Ghosts of the Remnant

A Postcolonial Reading of the Relationship between History and Identity in Jeremiah 39–44

in Biblical Interpretation
Autor:in:
Hannah J. Swithinbank United Benefice, Kew, London, United Kingdom

Search for other papers by Hannah J. Swithinbank in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Close
Zitierung herunterladen Berechtigungen erhalten

Optionen für den Zugriff

Nutzen Sie bitte eine der untenstehenden Zugriffsmöglichkeiten, um den vollständigen Artikel zu lesen.

Institutszugang

Melden Sie sich mit Open Athens, Shibboleth oder Ihren institutionellen Anmeldedaten an.

Über Institut einloggen

Kauf

Sofortzugang erwerben (PDF-Download und unbegrenzter Online-Zugang):

36,93 €

Weitere Zugriffsmöglichkeiten

Auf DeepDyve mieten
Token einlösen

Abstract

The book of Jeremiah is well-known for the aporias and fractures within its text, which are much discussed. In Jeremiah 39–44 these confusions appear as indicative of two antagonistic community identities, one of which seeks (and fails) to repress the other in their claims to be the people of Israel’s God. These identities arose after the conquest of Judah by Babylon, as a shattered and divided community sought to understand their new situations. Using the postcolonial ideas of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Homi Bhabha and the historiographical work of Michel-Rolph Trouillot, I argue that in the historical narrative of this section of Jeremiah, the ghost of the Judahite community established by Gedaliah appears as a communitas interruptus, making claims on the prophet, the land, and on God, haunting and disrupting the claim of migrating golahites to be the true, surviving people of Israel’s God even as they are written out of the narrative.

Kennzahlen

Insgesamt Letzte 365 Tage In den letzten 30 Tagen
Aufrufe von Kurzbeschreibungen 300 140 6
Gesamttextansichten 66 38 1
PDF-Downloads 144 87 1