Cultures of Mobility, Migration, and Religion in Ancient Israel and Its World
This book examines the relationship between mobility, lived religiosities, and conceptions of divine personhood as they are preserved in textual corpora and material culture from Israel, Judah, Egypt, and Mesopotamia.
By integrating evidence of the form and function of religiosities in contexts of mobility and migration, this volume reconstructs mobility-informed aspects of civic and household religiosities in Israel and its world. Readers will find a robust theoretical framework for studying cultures of mobility and religiosities in the ancient past, as well as a fresh understanding of the scope and texture of mobility-informed religious identities that composed broader Yahwistic religious heritage.
Cultures of Mobility, Migration, and Religion in Ancient Israel and Its World will be of use to both specialists and informed readers interested in the history of mobilities and migrations in the ancient Near East, as well as those interested in the development of Yahwism in its biblical and extra-biblical forms.
Eric M. Trinka is an instructor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at James Madison University. His research takes place at the intersections of mobilities and religiosities in both ancient and modern contexts. He is particularly interested in the development of the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint as migration-informed textual corpuses. His work is internationally known among religionists, biblical scholars, and migration scholars.
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Cultures of Mobility, Migration, and Religion in Ancient Israel and Its World
Eric M. Trinka
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For all the peoples walk, each in the name of their own gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our god forever and ever.
Micah 4:5
Contents
- Introduction
- The Origins and Direction of the Project
- Bodies of Evidence Considered
- Why This Book?
- Conceptual Frameworks for Studying Mobility, Migration, and Religion in the Ancient Past
- Movement, Mobility, Motility, and Migration
- Past and Present Terminology for Movement and Migration
- Insecurity and the Household: Agency and Decision-Making
- Defining Religion and Religiosities
- Households and Religiosity in the Ancient Near East
- Migrants' Religiosities
- Cultural Mutability and Internal Religious Pluralism in Contexts of Mobility
- Cultures of Mobility in the Lands Around Canaan
- Overland Movement
- River Travel and Seafaring
- Interregional Competition and Exchange
- Mobile Functionaries
- Mobile Pastoralism
- Pilgrimage
- Controlling Mobility
- Borders and Boundaries
- The Question of a Ubiquitous Code of Hospitality
- Population Displacement and Relocation
- Perceptions of Mobile Persons
- 3mu
- Shasu
- Habiru
- Sea Peoples
- Amorites/Amurru
- Arameans
- Religiosity(ies) on the Move around Canaan
- Defining Divinity
- Deities on the Move
- Mobility and Religiosities in Egypt and Mesopotamia
- Cultures of Mobility and Migration in Canaan, Israel, and Judah
- Israel's Emergence in Light of Migration Studies
- Emergent Social Structures and Networks of Connectivity
- Migration and Ethnogenesis
- Cultures of Mobility within Processes of State Formation
- The Israelite Household and Mobility
- Mobility and Migration between Israel and Judah in the Iron Age II
- Yahweh: Israel's Mobile Deity
- Yahweh's Emergence
- Yahweh, Mountains, and Mobility
- Yahweh's Mobility and His Rise to the Head of the Pantheon
- Mobility and Yahweh's Personhood in Judah's Bible
- Mobility-Informed Religiosity(ies) in Israel and Judah
- Identifying Spaces of Religious Life
- Civic Spaces of Religiosity
- The Question of Temples in Israel and Judah
- bmt
- Gradients of Mobility and Civic Religious Participation
- Mobile Religious Specialists: Priests and Prophets
- Material Remnants of Mobility-Informed Civic Religiosities
- Arad
- Beersheva
- The Bull Site
- Dan
- Mt. Ebal
- Lachish
- Shiloh
- Taanach
- Kuntillet Ajrud: Mobilities and Civic Religiosities at the Crossroads
- Household Spaces of Religiosity
- Domestic Spaces of Veneration
- Food Preparation and Dietary Habits
- Birthing Spaces and Naming Practices
- Burial Spaces and Practices