Research Catalog

Title

Obadiah / edited by Bob Becking.

Publication

Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

Becking, Bob

Description

xi, 166 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Although Obadiah is the smallest book in the Hebrew Bible, its readers are confronted with a variety of challenges-linguistic, historical and hermeneutical. In the present volume the Book of Obadiah is approached from a variety of angles and reading strategies. These approaches sometimes concur, but often contradict one another. Bob Becking discusses various grammatical and linguistic problems of the Hebrew text in translating the book for a post-secular audience. Historical questions are the province of Nadav Na'aman. What were the 'events' with which the text seems to cope? Literary-historical issues concern Marvin Sweeney, who sees the book as the end-result of a complex redaction history in which the text was read in connection with and confrontation to the other Minor Prophets. Reading from particular positions is the theme of Gerrie Snyman, approaching the book in a South-African context, and asking, Who is vulnerable and who is not? Julia O'Brien takes a gender-specific approach asking, What does it mean that Edom is a brother who breaks the family code? Eric Ottenheijm traces the ways in which the Rabbis understood Obadiah. With insights from newly developing fields, Nicholas Werse discusses the violent character of judgment in the book in the light of semiotics, and Bradford Anderson brings to the fore the spatial rhetoric in the book. The authors of this volume offer their readings of the text in a non-exclusive way. No one claims to have found the one and only way to appreciate the message of the prophetic book. It is up to the readers of this volume-and of the Book of Obadiah-to decide how they will read the book in the changing circumstances of life."

Series Statement

Readings: a new biblical commentary

Uniform Title

Readings--a new biblical commentary.

Subject

Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-158) and indexes.

Contents

'To translate is to transgress': Obadiah transformed into post-secular English / Bob Becking -- The prophecy of Obadiah in Historical perspective / Nadav Na'aman -- 'Sons of Esau': Talmudic readings of Obadiah 1.18 / Eric Ottenheijm -- Obadiah and a hermeneutic of vulnerability / Gerrie F. Snyman -- Obadiah within the book of the twelve prophets / Marvin A. Sweeney -- Crime and punishment: a semiotic analysis of judgment in Obadiah / Nicholas R. Werse -- The spatial rhetoric of Obadiah / Bradford A. Anderson -- Edom as (selfish) brother / Julia M. O'Brien.

Call Number

JFE 16-9903

ISBN

• 9781910928097
• 1910928097
• 9781910928080
• 1910928089

OCLC

954467610

Title

Obadiah / edited by Bob Becking.

Publisher

Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Readings: a new biblical commentary

Readings--a new biblical commentary.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-158) and indexes.

Added Author

Becking, Bob, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-9903