دانلود کتاب اسرائیل، یهودا و گروه‌های همسایه در کتاب‌های سموئیل

The books of Samuel, which narrate the beginning of kingship in Israel and the reigns of Israel’s first two kings, Saul and David, are replete with references to groups and individuals from areas in the geographic vicinity of ancient Israel and Judah, including, among others, Philistines, Ammonites, Amalekites, Edomites, Moabites, Arameans, Gileadites, and Gibeonites. While the biblical narrative portrays Saul and/or David as interacting with all of these groups and with individual members of the latter, the question arises to what extent historical conditions from later periods in Israel and Judah might be reflected and evaluated through the literary representation of such interactions already during the reigns of Israel’s founding kings, Saul and David. The contributions in this volume present a variety of case studies dealing with the representation of interactions between Israel (and especially its first two kings, Saul and David) and neighboring groups both within the world of the narrative and in relation to the historical circumstances presupposed by the narrative’s authors. Many of the contributions were first presented as papers at the conference “The Book of Samuel in the Shadow of Empires: Relations between Israel, Judah, and Neighboring Nations in Historical, Compositional, and Theological Perspective”, held at the University of Basel on October 12–14, 2022 with the financial support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. These contributions have been supplemented with additional studies that address the topic at hand from various perspectives, some of which have been published previously in other contexts, while others have been written specifically for this volume. Rather than constituting a comprehensive “handbook” on the representation of every neighboring group of Israel and Judah mentioned in the books of Samuel, the contributions in this volume reflect a snapshot of scholarship on the books of Samuel in the early 2020s and the diversity of approaches existing at the interface of literary analysis, history, and archaeology. We would like to offer our thanks to all of the authors for their contributions to the volume and for the stimulating discussion that arose both at the conference in Basel and in the process of revising the contributions for publication. We would also like to thank Anita Dirnberger, Nora Hurter, Damaris Zaugg, Joris Krapf, and Michael Klaiber for their outstanding help with the organization and practical logistics of the conference in Basel and with the formatting of the present volume. Finally, we wish to extend our gratitude to the editors of the RIAB series for accepting the volume for publication, to the editorial staff at Mohr Siebeck for their support in preparing the volume, and to the Swiss National Science Foundation, which provided the financial support for the Open Access publication of the volume.