The Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology: leshakken shemo sham in the Bible and the Ancient Near EastThis 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
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2 Julius Wellhausen and the Evolution of Israelite Religion | 22 |
3 Wellhausens Disciples | 24 |
4 Modern Reconstructions of the Name Theology | 26 |
D A New Paradigm | 36 |
C Classifying the Inscriptions | 136 |
2 Triumphal Texts | 139 |
3 Building Inscriptions | 142 |
4 Foundation Deposits | 144 |
5 Clay Nails | 148 |
D šuma šakānu and the Monumental Corpus | 153 |
2 Gudea and šuma šakānu | 158 |
3 The Victory Stelae of the Amanus Mountains or Journey to the Cedar Forest and šuma šakānu | 160 |
II The lešakkēn šemô šām Formula in Its Biblical Context | 41 |
A The Distribution of the lešakkēn šemô šām Formula and Its Synonymous Reflexes lāśûm šemô šām and lihyôṯ šemô šām | 43 |
B The Biblical Occurrences of the Deuteronomic Formula | 53 |
2 The Deuteronomistic History | 63 |
3 2 Samuel 7 1 Kings 8 | 68 |
4 Jeremiah Ezra Nehemiah | 91 |
5 Conclusions | 95 |
C The Translation of the Deuteronomic Formula | 96 |
1 The verb škn in its Biblical Occurrences | 98 |
2 The verb škn in Semitic | 105 |
3 Conclusions | 118 |
D Could Deuteronomys lešakkēn be borrowed into Biblical Hebrew? | 121 |
III The lešakkēn šemô šām Formula in Its ANE Context | 127 |
šumu + šakānu | 128 |
The Royal Monumental Inscriptions of Mesopotamia | 130 |
4 Building Inscriptions and šuma šakānu | 170 |
5 Correspondence and šuma šakānu | 174 |
6 šuma šakānu as a Metaphor for Acquiring Fame | 179 |
7 Conclusions | 182 |
E šuma šaṭra šakānu and the Monumental Corpus | 184 |
2 Foundation Deposits and šuma šaṭra šakānu | 188 |
3 Wallsikkātu and šuma šaṭra šakānu | 194 |
4 Conclusions | 198 |
F šuma šakānu in the Levant | 199 |
G The Relationship Between šuma šakānu and Deuteronomy | 204 |
The Meaning of the lešakkēn šemô šām Formula in the Deuteronomistic History | 207 |
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