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Religion, Ethnicity and Xenophobia in the Bible

This is a thoroughly researched, multidisciplinary monograph which utilises a wide range of scholarship in order to trace portrayals of the foreigners in biblical texts, and a variety of other relevant primary evidence. Rainey writes thoughtfully and brings strong theoretical foundations into dialogue with incisive analysis of texts. The monograph illustrates and highlights the various nuances of the enduring, and never more topical, nature of xenophobia, ethnicity, and religion.

Katherine Southwood, University of Oxford, UK

Religion, Ethnicity and Xenophobia in the Bible looks at some of the Bibles most hostile and violent anti-foreigner texts and raises critical questions about how students of the Bible and ancient Near East should grapple with ethnicity and foreignness conceptually, hermeneutically and theologically. The author uses insights from social psychology, cognitive psychology, anthropology, sociology and ethnic studies to develop his own perspective on ethnicity and foreignness.

Starting with legends about Mesopotamian kings from the third millennium BCE, then navigating the Deuteronomistic and Holiness traditions of the Hebrew Bible, and finally turning to Deuterocanonicals and the Apostle Paul, the book assesses the diverse and often inconsistent portrayals of foreigners in these ancient texts. This examination of the negative portrayal of foreigners in biblical and Mesopotamian texts also leads to a broader discussion about how to theorize ethnicity in biblical studies, ancient studies and the humanities. This volume will be invaluable to students of ethnicity and society in the Bible, at all levels.

Brian Rainey is Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA.

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RELIGION, ETHNICITY AND XENOPHOBIA IN THE BIBLE

A Theoretical, Exegetical and Theological Survey

Brian Rainey

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Religion, Ethnicity and Xenophobia in the Bible

A Theoretical, Exegetical and Theological Survey

Brian Rainey

First published 2019

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Names: Rainey, Brian, author.

Title: Religion, ethnicity and xenophobia in the Bible : a theoretical, exegetical and theological survey / Brian Rainey.

Description: First edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. |

Series: Routledge studies in the biblical world | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018030304 (print) | LCCN 2018042213 (ebook) | ISBN 9781351260442 (ebook) | ISBN 9781351260435 (web pdf) | ISBN 9781351260428 (epub) | ISBN 9781351260411 (mobi/kindle) | ISBN 9780815365891 (hardback : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Ethnicity in the Bible. | XenophobiaBiblical teaching.

Classification: LCC BS680.E85 (ebook) | LCC BS680.E85 R35 2018 (print) | DDC 220.8/3058dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018030304

ISBN: 978-0-8153-6589-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-351-26044-5 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman

by Out of House Publishing

In loving memory of my grandmother, Pearl L. Perkins

Contents

Guide

I would first like to thank my advisor, Saul M. Olyan, for all of his critiques and insights as I was writing my dissertation, a very early form of what would become this book. Also, special thanks go to my second reader, Matthew T. Rutz, who pointed me in the direction of important Mesopotamian sources and assisted me with Akkadian and Sumerian translations. Additionally, I would like to acknowledge my third reader, Stanley K. Stowers, who helped me navigate the theoretical issues that serve as the cornerstone of this book. Finally, I am extremely grateful to have friends and family whose support and patience got me through this project.

AB	Anchor Bible Commentary
ABRL	Anchor Bible Reference Library
ADFU	Ausgrabungen der deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft Uruk-Warka
AfO	Archiv fr Orientforschung
AHw	Akkadisches Handwrterbuch. Wolfram von Soden. 3 Vols. Wiesbaden, 1965
AnBib	Analecta Biblica
ANET	Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. Edited by J.B. Pritchard. 2 Vols. Princeton, 1969.
Ant.	Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews
AO	Antiquits orientales (Louvre)
AOAT	Alter Orient und Altes Testament
AOTC	Apollos Old Testament Commentary (InterVarsity Press)
ASOR	American Schools of Oriental Research
ATANT	Abhandlung zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments
AV	Authorized Version (King James Version)
BASOR	Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BHS	Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
Bib	Biblica
BiOr	Bibliotheca Orientalis
BJS	Brown Judaic Studies
BM	British Museum
BWL	Babylonian Wisdom Literature. W.G. Lambert. Oxford, 1960.
BZABR	Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fr altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte
BZAW	Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fr die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
BZRA	Beitrge zur Religionsgeschichte des Altertums
CAD	The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Edited by Ignace J. Gelb et al. Chicago, 1956
CAH	The Cambridge Ancient History. Second Edition. 14 vols. Cambridge, 1970
CANE	Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Edited by Jack M. Sasson. New York, 1995

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