The Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology: Lešakkēn Šemô Šām in the BibleThis monograph is a comparative, socio-linguistic reassessment of the Deuteronomic idiom, leshakken shemo sham, and its synonymous biblical reflexes in the Deuteronomistic History, lashum shemo sham, and lihyot shemo sham. These particular formulae have long been understood as evidence of the Name Theology - the evolution in Israelite religion toward a more abstracted mode of divine presence in the temple. Utilizing epigraphic material gathered from Mesopotamian and Levantine contexts, this study demonstrates that leshakken shemo sham and lashum shemo sham are loan-adaptations of Akkadian shuma shakanu, an idiom common to the royal monumental tradition of Mesopotamia. The resulting retranslation and reinterpretation of the biblical idiom profoundly impacts the classic formulation of the Name Theology. |
Contents
List of Figures | 6 |
B The Deuteronomistic History the Name Theology | 7 |
A New Paradigm | 36 |
The lšakken smo šām Formula in Deuteronomy | 44 |
The lasûm šmô šām Formula in Deuteronomy | 46 |
The lasûm smo šām Formula in the Deuteronomistic History | 49 |
The lihyôt and lāśûm Formulae in the Deuteronomistic History and the Chroniclers History | 51 |
B The Biblical Occurrences of the Deuteronomic Formula | 53 |
8c Biblical Hebrew škn | 120 |
Could Deuteronomys lšakken Be Borrowed into Biblical | 121 |
Classifying the Inscriptions | 136 |
šuma šakānu and the Monumental Corpus | 153 |
The Hiphil Occurrences of škn in the Hebrew Bible 104 | 164 |
The Journey to the Cedar Forest | 170 |
to place the name until distant days | 179 |
E šuma šatra šakānu and the Monumental Corpus | 184 |
The libnôt bayit lšem YHWH Formula in 1 Kings 8 | 80 |
The Translation of the Deuteronomic Formula | 96 |
The Semantic Field of Biblical Hebrew škn | 99 |
8a Biblical Hebrew škn | 103 |
8b Biblical Hebrew škn | 105 |
F šuma šakānu in the Levant | 199 |
The Meaning of the lšakken smô šām formula | 207 |
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