TY - CHAP
T1 - Will the Prophetic Texts from the Hellenistic Period Stand Up, Please
AU - Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia
PY - 2011/7/28
Y1 - 2011/7/28
N2 - There are scholars who see the entire Hebrew Bible as a Hellenistic endeavour, and there are scholars who maintain that no biblical text was written after the Persian period. Rather than taking any such extreme standpoint, the present paper seeks to survey the texts that a significant amount of scholars date to the Hellenistic period and furthermore to evaluate the arguments for or against this Hellenistic dating. The aim of the paper is to establish the range of texts within the Hebrew Bible that are likely to constitute textual sources for the Hellenistic period. The paper will first briefly discuss the commonly held arguments for dating books such as Daniel, Ecclesiastes, and Chronicles to the Hellenistic period. The bulk of the paper will then address the prophetic textual corpus, with focus on those passages in Isaiah (Isa 24-27; 34-35; 56-66) and Joel (2:28-3:21) and Zechariah (9-14) that several scholars regard as Hellenistic compositions, and assess in each case whether or not there are sufficient grounds for this relatively late dating. Finally, the paper will make a suggestion as to which texts are likely to have originated in the Hellenistic period and which texts are likely to have been composed earlier.
AB - There are scholars who see the entire Hebrew Bible as a Hellenistic endeavour, and there are scholars who maintain that no biblical text was written after the Persian period. Rather than taking any such extreme standpoint, the present paper seeks to survey the texts that a significant amount of scholars date to the Hellenistic period and furthermore to evaluate the arguments for or against this Hellenistic dating. The aim of the paper is to establish the range of texts within the Hebrew Bible that are likely to constitute textual sources for the Hellenistic period. The paper will first briefly discuss the commonly held arguments for dating books such as Daniel, Ecclesiastes, and Chronicles to the Hellenistic period. The bulk of the paper will then address the prophetic textual corpus, with focus on those passages in Isaiah (Isa 24-27; 34-35; 56-66) and Joel (2:28-3:21) and Zechariah (9-14) that several scholars regard as Hellenistic compositions, and assess in each case whether or not there are sufficient grounds for this relatively late dating. Finally, the paper will make a suggestion as to which texts are likely to have originated in the Hellenistic period and which texts are likely to have been composed earlier.
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780567046840
T3 - Library of Second Temple Studies
SP - 255
EP - 279
BT - Judah between East and West
A2 - Lipschits, O.
A2 - Grabbe, L.l.
PB - T&T Clark
CY - London
T2 - Judah between East and West: The Transition from Persian to Greek Rule (ca. 400-200 BCE)
Y2 - 17 April 2007 through 19 April 2007
ER -